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...long rope. He inspected garbage cans for food, begged meat scraps from a kindly butcher, sometimes walked all the way to Brooklyn to get a loaf of stale bread. On rare occasions he darted into a liquor store, after first peering carefully through the door, and bought a pint of whiskey-"for medicinal purposes...
There were a dozen other panels, from Educational Reconstruction through Humanities & Philosophy to Museums. Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar, of India, reminded his listeners that misunderstandings work both ways: "The barbarians think we are barbarians." UNESCO's Bernard Drzewieski, a pint-sized Pole, pointed up UNESCO's need: "In some parts of Greece and Poland there are 50 kids to one pencil." But Drzewieski himself had trouble with one small cultural barrier: he attributed the dream of "the new city of Friends" to "Walter" Whitman...
With 296 students already signed up, the Phillips Brooks House blood drive is nearing its 300 pint goal, S. M. Strawson, Jr. '47, chairman of the Blood Donor Committee, announced yesterday afternoon...
Though wholesale bloodshed is at an end on most areas of the globe, peacetime accidents and diseases still crop up regularly in all communities, Cambridge included. For the victim of hit-and-run driving or a homorrhagic ailment, a pint of blood, supplied gratis by the State Red Cross is a vital serum which often turns impending death into certain life...
Pulitzer Prize Historian Herbert Agar (The People's Choice) has condensed its nine volumes into two, largely by jettisoning Adams' footnotes and masses of documentary matter. The product is still far from pint-sized: it runs to some 400,000 words, or twice the size of The Education. But at last the general reader may have in reasonably compact form what is acknowledged to be : 1) the standard text in its field, 2) one of the most brilliant of all U.S. histories...