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...young mathematicians went into war work-Lyttleton into the War Office in London as a technical adviser and Hoyle into radar development All through the blitz and the buzz-bombs Lyttleton kept publishing small, abstruse papers. Hoyle, by his own account, worked on cosmology "under the desk" like a schoolboy reading comics instead of doing his arithmetic...
Though most of Louisa's arch humor misfires, seasoned Actors Gwenn and Coburn get some entertaining slapstick into their schoolboy posturings. Ronald Reagan and Ruth Hussey have little to do except exclaim about the way grandma is carrying on. As the daughter of the family, involved in a dreary little romance of her own, Piper Laurie plays a 17-year-old who seems to have matured every way except mentally...
...nice things about coaching football at the United States Military Academy these days is that the prospects of losing a speedy halfback to the draft are nil. In addition, the Spartan life at West Point makes the problem of conditioning a relatively minor one, and exceptional schoolboy athletes who aspire to become officers and gentlemen often...
...West's concern with the religious illiteracy of college students who spell "prophet" as "profit" (TIME, Sept. 25) brings to mind a private collection of schoolboy howlers shown me by a friend who was tutoring a freshman economics class at the University of Toronto two years ago. On an examination, one of his students wrote to the effect that "depressions are caused when the prophets are not so good...
...living U.S. poets, none has lodged poems more surely where they will be hard to get rid of. At its best, Frost's crabapple-tart verse distills into the pure liquor of lyric poetry. Stopping by Woods is one of the loveliest poems ever written. Every U.S. schoolboy knows Birches. His lines carry the tone and temper of New England's dour and canny folk, often have the tren chancy and inevitability of folk sayings. Frost has made "good fences make good neighbors"* part of the language. Chores are "doing things over and over that just...