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Published this week is a new version of The Cloud of Unknowing (Harper; $1.50) -this time an "interpretation" by an anonymous student at a Quaker center. Greatly abridged and rearranged, the language of the new version is pared down to plain English as spare as a Friends' meetinghouse. The...
With opening day of the 1947-48 Crimson basketball campaign only five days off, coach Bill Barclay has pared his Varsity squad to 12 men and steadily increased the daily practice tempo in preparation for the MIT quintet next Wednesday on the Engineers' home court.
Less Fun. Inflation has spoiled the fun. Bargaining has become shrill, bitter, desperate. When the housewife asks why tomatoes have jumped 10% overnight, why beans which cost 50 centavos a kilo in 1940 now cost 1.65 pesos, the stall-keeper glibly blames la situation Rusa or la inundation de Florida...
Producer David O. Selznick, whose outdoors extravaganza, Duel in the Sun, had shocked moralists of several faiths, tinkered busily here & there, finally won from the Catholic Legion of Decency a "B" rating-meaning that the picture is now considered bad only in spots. Number of spots pared out: 46. But...
For the Senate Commerce Committee, CAB Chairman James M. Landis had a ready answer-lack of money. He could point out that CAA's request last year for $90,000,000 to improve air safety had been cut by the Budget Bureau to $68,000,000, by Congress to...