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Since the German schools have an overflow of scientific texts and want books written in English, Monday's shipment contains a majority of texts on economics, history, and literature, and nothing on language or the sciences...
...College made its last major addition to the Stadium. Ever since 1914, when Yale built its enormous Bowl, envious Harvard eyes had been trained on New Haven. When in 1928 track meet drew overflow crowds, University authorities decided it was time to set up additional seating...
...marooned party finally catch a boat, but the play distinctly misses it. The play fails less, perhaps, because its joke never really expands than because it never really effervesces; there is never that sudden overflow whereby a comedy of situation rips wildly into farce, or a comedy of manners lurches hilariously toward madness. The play remains part of a fashionable tradition which slices its amusement as paper-thin as its sandwiches, and-for success-demands a special type of flawless acting. In London, with Robert Morley, Joan Tetzel and David Tomlinson, The Little Hut presumably had it; but on Broadway...
...trick"). Though Columnist Skolsky shows up occasionally (seductive Chatter item: "Sid Skolsky in again, and what a sweet guy that is"), he remains loyal to Schwab's. Meanwhile, Leon Schwab is taking his competition calmly. Says he: "They're just an imitation. They're getting our overflow. We wish them the best of luck...
France's Architect Le Corbusier, the prophet of vertical living who thinks that even Manhattan skyscrapers are too small, came in for some criticism last week in London's Economist. His familiar prescription for overflow populations from ever-growing cities is the super apartment house, a kind of human hive (he has just finished a 20-floor prototype at Marseille, placing 1,500 people on a 450-by-66-ft. plot). The alternative, says the Economist, is the sprawling suburb, "the village green multiplied by unplanned expansion" that all too easily turns into an "amorphous and soulless mess...