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...story of her harum-scarum voyage, well and engagingly told, was first published in England in 1939, but smothered by the war along with other travel books by leisurely private adventurers. If armchair circumnavigators are now willing to knock about under sail without even wireless aboard, much less radar, the Cap Pilar is their craft...
...heart of the CRIMSON, to hear a news board man tell it, is the harum scarum band of ragamuffins who make it their business to know what is going on around the University and associated institutions...
...press rushed in. What went on was hastily reported at the time, but not so frankly and fully as three newsmen told it in books out last week.* Though the authors may not have intended them to be, their accounts are a revealing documentation of the harum-scarum behavior of the press under stress. "The whole thing," wrote Cornelius Ryan (then of the London Telegraph, now of TIME), "was a cross between a Marx Brothers movie, Hellzapoppin and an Irish wake...
...Jose Ferrer's reading of Mozart and Schubert biographies with symphonic accompaniment. Best of the lot: a straightforward dramatization of Oscar Wilde's poignant fairy tale, The Happy Prince, starring Bing Crosby and Orson Welles (Decca, 4 sides) and Balladeer Woody Guthrie's original harum-scarum Songs to Grow On-Nursery Days (Disc, 6 sides...
Linotype operators for the Crimson have always taken a personal interest in the goings on of the succeeding generations of amateur newspapermen, and somehow find a compensation for all the unbusiness-like, harum-scarum procedures that have inevitably accompanied every board of editors...