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...Berlin, the American authorities refused to approve a Soviet version of Tom Sawyer for German schools. The reason was a preface which said: "Twain's scorn is directed primarily against the semi-education of parvenus and refined people who imitate the European way of life. . . . The whole mendacity of the capitalistic class, the hypocrisy and bigotry in the U.S. of his time are attacked without leniency or mercy." However, without U.S. sanction, 400,000 Berlin children go on using Soviet-proposed books because the U.S. has not supplied any schoolbooks...
Better pictures, equipment, and projector-handling are the main features of the new set-up, Richard C. Sawyer '51, movie director, said. Union policy will be to secure the "best past film," and advance bookings already run up to March...
...appointed are Wayne Barnett '50, James E. Barrett '51, Alvin Becker '51, Arthur W. Bingham '51, Samuel Butler '51, John Cowles, Jr. '51, Marvin Eiger '51, Fred A. Heim '50, Paul H. Ode '51, Lucian C. Parlato '50, and William C. Sawyer...
...free-&-easy, friendly Midwesterners of his books. There were neat, small, wooden houses with Victorian fretwork along the eaves, lace curtains and begonias and geraniums in the windows. The houses and. roads had the same unpainted, unpaved frontier look. The trim wooden fences could have done with Tom Sawyer's or any other system of whitewashing. A lad of about Tom's age came past, dragging his feet on his way to school the way Tom did. He had a 2-ft. birch whittling stick, from which his shiny-bladed penknife was 'making shavings fly first...
...wrestling summary: 121-pound--Vinton (A) defeated Waddell (fall; 128-pound--Lamp (A) defeated Nutt (fall); 136-pound--Linn (A) defeated Currier; 145-pound--Sawyer (A) defeated Harris (fall); 155-pound Hardenburgh (A) defeated Perry; 165-pound--Rogers (H) defeated Ordeman (fall); 175-pound--Beber (H) defeated Waring; Unlimited--Houston (H) defeated Wight (fall...