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Visiting at Columbia University's Teachers College, stronghold of the educational tenet that corporal punishment leaves enduring bruises on a child's emotions, Britain's Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein spoke up in favor of using the rod. Admittedly no great shakes as a scholar,*Monty, who got an honorary doctor of laws degree from Columbia's President Grayson Kirk, gave a lecture on "Education for Leadership." Said he: "I'm for beating the bad boys-not the girls ... A boy cannot be expected to imagine . . . the misery and pain he has the power...
...mystery. Last week at a Manhattan meeting of the National Academy of Sciences Professor Arthur W. Pollister of Columbia University showed electron microscope pictures of a frog's egg cell. Magnified 24,000 diameters, the membrane of the nucleus looks solid, but poking through it are rod-shaped objects. Dr. Pollister suspects that they are chemical memos ordering the egg to develop into a tadpole rather than into a mouse or a whale...
...Debate Council felt that debating the Rod China topic is not questioning a decision, but a free investigation of both sides of the Communist problem "for a clearer understanding of the issues involved...
...while his fear of reprisal and the herd-honor speak more strongly than his love for the girl and the first dull prickings of conscience. Then one night he finds his own big brother (Rod Steiger), the legal lieutenant of the union boss, dead in an alley because he stood up for junior. And so the ways are greased that send the picture sliding into a blood bath of the sort moviegoers will be wiping off their memories for days...
Beside this almost massive performance, the others, even though good, seem a little small. Rod Steiger, as the brother, is, to the life, the kind of Irish bright boy who can get a little too smart for himself. Eva Marie Saint is quite right, too, in her convent-kept freshness, as the kind of narrow little good girl the bad boys long to be redeemed by. Karl Maiden is bulldoggish as the priest, but hardly conveys the earthy sagacity of the living models the part was drawn from...