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These relics were not meant as a vulgar insult to President Jefferson. They were zoological samplings from Meriwether Lewis and William Clark,* of the U.S. Army, out to explore Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. Every U.S. schoolboy has heard of them, but the seven volumes of their journals have long been the private browsing grounds of historical grubbers. Now Pulitzer Prize winner Bernard (Across the Wide Missouri) DeVoto has cut them down to everyman's size, restored the great adventure to the common reader...
...every schoolboy knows, the Carnation Co. evaporates milk "from Contented Cows." Thanks partly to this slogan, Carnation has become the U.S.'s third largest milkman,*and the biggest producer of evaporated milk in the world. But Carnation is never contented itself. Last week in Van Nuys, Calif., it showed off a milk-white, $1,000,000 research laboratory where Carnation researchers will try to find new ways to make cows more contented-and more productive...
...sharpens its poignancy. The sympathetic portrayal of the lovers' parents, seen only dimly in the book, greatly enriches the plot. But more important, the film strips the story of the irritating elements of the book: Radiguet's smug introspection and pride of exploit. Shifted into the character of the schoolboy, rather then coloring the whole account, the immaturity and egoism of the young lover appear in proper perspective...
...Schoolboy athletic star William Donlan '57 last night announced that he will leave the College and study at Holy Cross instead...
...breeze-struck schoolboy of ten in New Orleans, Eugene Walet talked his father into buying him a Snipe Class sailboat. The elder Walet, who is president of the Jefferson Lake Sulphur Co., was soon shanghaied into a task familiar to the parents of juvenile sailors. Landlubber Walet began training as a weekend crewman under his son's command on Lake Ponchartrain...