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...Godin, ace pitcher of last year's baseball squad is in Deland, Florida, training with the Louisville team of the Red Sox farm system. He is aiming to join two select, but undistinguished groups--the Red Sox mound staff, and the company of Harvard graduates who have made the big time...
Those oarsmen have been trained to a peak which their coaches expect to be reached on Saturday. The winners will doubtless row well in their race here, but it will be an anticlimax, for the race on Saturday is no more elimination to select a suitable foe for the local oarsmen. It is The Boat Race. William E. Slesnick...
According to its editors the new venture will cater to "a wide, but select audience." Publication may be delayed, for the policy of other editors on printing already-published material has not as yet been ascertained. In addition, Phillips is uncertain whether he can get enough material of sufficiently high quality...
...Burned Bramble belongs in the select company of those novels which have best explained why and how the good Communists become dead ones (others : Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, Victor Serge's The Case of Comrade Tulayev). It is the work of Manes Sperber, a slight, talkative ex-professor of psychology in German universities, who now lives in Paris. Like many a Communist intellectual, he had a blind spot for Stalin's big lie until the Moscow trials of old Communist heroes. In 1937 he broke with the party...
...seven man ad hoc committee appointed by President Conant to screen candidates for Bingham's post and to select a successor started final screening last Monday and will continue to work on it this week...