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Leighton said the College should aim for an average House enrollment of 325, as contrasted to the 418 average last year. This, along with overcrowding in freshman dormitories, has put residence at 149 percent of pre-war capacity. He added that 44 percent of the undergraduates still have to use the double-decker beds introduced to meet postwar conditions...
...moment, Britain's best-known cartoonist, aging (65) David Low, writing for the New York Times Magazine, deplored, from a caricaturist's viewpoint, the post-Stalin decline of "the cult of personality." Lamented Low: "There has been a steady decline in striking personality as compared with pre-war yesterday, with its Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Gandhi, Churchill, Roosevelt and company . . . Eisenhower offers opportunities, certainly, with his curiously shaped skull and short, wide face, but nobody could say he was a cartoonist's delight . . . Things are even worse with the British. If you found Anthony Eden and Hugh Gaitskell...
Through it all, however, University life continued almost as if there were nothing abnormal happening. Uniforms became common-place and so did Radcliffe girls in Harvard lecture halls. Undergraduates who had never experienced the pre-war Harvard found nothing unusual about metal trays or double decker beds. While about 500 of the teaching staff took leaves of absence, 1600 stayed. These were assisted by professors who came out of retirement...
Nowhere has the miniaturization trend brought greater rewards than in electronics. In place of old-style vacuum tubes, science has developed miniature tubes and tiny transistors no bigger than a shoelace tip to perform most of the same functions (TIME, March 12). The soldered-wire mazes of pre-war radio sets are giving way to electronic circuits printed on blotter-thin panels. Electric motors have shrunk to the size of a man's thumb, delicate gyroscopes to the size of a bottle stopper...
Unfortunately some technical imperfections date the pre-war film and mar its polish. The color reproduction is inferior, and the animation cannot always respond to the musical rhythms. But these irritations are swept aside by the sheer excitement of Fantasia's experimental efforts. And, perhaps most interesting, Disney's successes and failures throughout the film raise a host of questions concerning the relationship between musical and visual...