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...Pennsylvania has already lost six players, but one came back. As a civilian, Bob Odell was the standout back in the sere Ivy League. Last week he was inducted into V12, and immediately assigned -to Pennsylvania. Two days later Navyman Odell streaked 40 yards for a touchdown that helped tie favored but mud-bogged Army...
Theme & Variations. Upon this theme, in poetry rich in paradox and reward, in mystery, in symbol, in despair and, ultimately, in hope. Eliot develops his great variations. The sere, cryptic titles of the four quartets are the names of places intimately associated with his experience. Burnt Norton was a Gloucestershire man or near which he lived for a while. East Coker is a Somerset village which was the home of his ancestors. The Dry Salvages (accented like assuages) is a group of rocks off Cape Ann, Mass. Little Gidding was a lyth-Century religious community established by Nicholas Ferrar. Each...
...Manhattan last week famed, forthright Physiologist Anton J. Carlson of the University of Chicago chairmaned a meeting aimed at overcoming this situation. The conferees were no sere cluster of drys: they were top-notch physiologists, psychiatrists, clergymen, social workers and representatives of Alcoholics Anonymous (organization of cured alcoholics), called together by the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol, a branch of the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
...rumble of a stampede when he hears it approaching. With his speech last week he put himself squarely on the side he thinks will win when isolationism gets its first test in Kansas next year. If all goes as he expects, he may be next in line for sere old Arthur Capper's Senate seat...
Farm to Factory. Four months ago the site of the Detroit Tank Arsenal was a farm, turning brown and sere under a hazy autumn sun. During the summer Big Bill Knudsen had called bulky K. T. Keller, president of Chrysler Corp., and asked him, as one motormaker to another: Could Chrysler build the Army a medium tank? "K. T." said, sure. Could he see one to get an idea what it was like...