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...code which proves by contention: seventeen million Jews have known for four thousand years that every letter has a numerical value independent of its alphabetical significance. In the first follo, at the death of Hamlet, the prince had the words O, o, o, o on the tip of his tongue. This did not appear after the first follo. (One might be permitted a comparison between the dark powers of Denmark and the Cambridge gendarmerie). The cipher, as any Hebrew on the street will tell you, means "book." Naturally, we deduce that O, o, o, o refers us to the fourth...
...which contains only a few outstanding short stories. First, I shall touch briefly on the self-conscious authors who treat sex sensationally, and badly; into this category come Bruce Brown, Erskine Caldwell, James Stern, and George Albee. The last man mentioned describes pithily and dully the reactions of a seventeen-year-old boy when he is assured that he has contracted syphilis from a girl whom he loves. "Week-End," by Carlton Brown is an amusing description of the awakening of youth, written in an impersonal vein by a man who does not attempt to analyze and explain each movement...
...series of chamber music concerts by the Chardon String Quartet will be given in Brattle Hall on seven Thursday evenings, commencing November 9. The concerts, which are under the auspices of the Longy School of Music, will complete a cycle, in chronological order, of the seventeen string quartets of Beethoven...
...allows some graduates of colleges to go to West Point when barred from Annapolis. Men have played three years on college teams and four years at West Point. Army claims all students must have equal opportunity and that football players make fine soldiers. Maybe so, but of the last seventeen football captains at West Point nine are out of the service, some are playing professionally and some coaching. Probably same percentage would hold for other players. There are five men in the Army squad this year twenty-four years old, one having another year to go, seven are twenty-three...
...wandering artist, man-of-the-great-world, wounded veteran of Waterloo. Hamish and Allison both delighted in him; his visit lengthened on & on. Then Hamish had to go to London. Allison and Andrew, left alone, finally admitted they were in love; but Allison remembered her duty, sent him packing. Seventeen years later she saw him again, on the street in Edinburgh. But she hid in a doorway until he was safely by. The Author is a niece of "Ian Hay" (Major John Hay Beith) who wrote the War best-seller The First Hundred Thousand. After graduating from Cambridge...