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...never permitted to leave Moscow during her stay in Russia. But her restless curiosity and good-natured brashness got her into schools, museums, churches, ordinary homes and, with the help of interpreters, into occasional friendly arguments. Over at Uncle Joe's is haphazard reporting on the breezy, often pointless level of a women's-club lecture. But it does convey something of what daily living is like for both foreigners and Muscovites, and Moscow itself becomes a city instead of a featureless backdrop for the Kremlin...
...excellent, the four stories do not all show professional skill, but all provocatively give promise of better work. Lured by Dave Self's splendid cover and five tasteful sketches, the reader will be disappointed by the unimaginative makeup and by the promise of a second and maybe a third pointless article on the UN by Stephen Schwebel...
...shorter stories, "The Vigil," by William A. Emerson, is neat and subdued, creating atmosphere in a small space. In "Kenneth," A. K. Lowis has satirized the slick magazine story by substituting grotesque animals for the even more grotesque creatures that inhabit the originals. The result is almost pointless, but delightful...
...Williams, M.I.T., and New Hampshire and an extra-curricular tiff with the Boston Lacrosse Club will bring the team up to May 24 and the Yale embroglio well primed for Bulldog meat. At this early date predictions on the outcome of the N.E.I.L.L. race for the Briggs Trophy are pointless, but come what may April 1 will find Chief Maddux and his ten best practitioners of the old Indian game on the warpath and howling...
...still on Flores when the Japs attacked the N.E.I. In eight days the Dutch lost Java. Gallant but inept, the Dutch Navy bungled into calamity and the Dutch air force was destroyed. Thereafter, it would have been pointless, militarily, for the Dutch Army to attempt resistance. To the Indonesians, however, the Army was the symbol of Dutch rule. When the Army did not fight and Dutch Governor General A. W. L. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer* fled to Australia, the Indonesians lost all respect for the Dutch. Millions of Indonesians swallowed the Jap slogan "Asia for the Asiatics...