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...From Dr. William G. Carr, executive secretary of the National Education Association, came a reminder to fellow educators that "not all our critics are our enemies." Obvious although unnamed targets of his remarks: two officials of the National Association of Secondary-School Principals (an NEA affiliate) who sent a round-robin letter to 16,500 high school principals recently, suggesting a boycott of TIME and LIFE (TIME, April 21). Observed Carr pointedly: "Some adverse comments about our schools are justified. In such cases, the appropriate reaction is not fear or anger, but rather prompt and remedial action...
Baldly told, without regard to Author Cicellis' luminous sensibility and genuine compassion. Ten Seconds from Now could seem as world-wearily neurasthenic as Françoise Sagan's round-robin tournaments of amour. Dominique loves Nondas who has eyes only for Erne. Diki is engaged to Vangos but pines for Jason who solaces himself with Aemilia. Monarches loves his wife Julia who leaves him for a nameless lover for whom she has waited for 15 years. Danae loves Simos who is too poor to offer marriage but can pay for an abortion. Sentimental Vivi is perhaps poorest...
...Crimson's undefeated court tennis team will begin its annual intrasquad round-robin at the Tennis and Racquet Club next week, in preparation for its only match, the H-Y-P intercollegiate tournament in the Racquet and Tennis Club of New York on March 9. Captain Randy Hackett and Ed Harding are nip and tuck for the top position. The team will definitely be favored to take the tourney for the third straight year...
Exchanged Sarcasms. Such respectful words have beauty of a sort for Charles Randall Brown, a heavy-set and hard-boiled Southerner who reads the Bible in the King James version nightly, revels in discussing the Koran with Turks and writes round-robin letters to his friends back home about his visits to foreign ports. Admiral Brown is both sensitive and salty. "You can't put a martini in a refrigerator," he says, "any more than you can put in a kiss"; and he sums up his 1921 wedding to Marylander Eleanor Green in a quaint, jazz...
...third year as number-one singles, he is playing better than ever. He is currently ranked number seven in the United States and is the Intercollegiate Champion. Only Diehl Mateer and Henri Salaun can be expected to beat him in national competition, and recently in the Ticknor-Glidden Round-Robin, Heckscher had a 2-0, 9-2 lead on Salaun, before the ex-national champion could rally to a victory...