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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rejuvenated weskit is making a desperate attempt to become part of the attire of today's stylish young man, and well it may. At any rate, there appears to be no Dior in sight who will, in the near future, set feat in the hearts of fashion wise Harvard males by upsetting the register of today's styles...
Grants amounting to $400,000 from several foundations will cease this June 30, he said. So far only a fraction of the funds necessary to maintain the school's present budget are now in sight...
Last week Noel and Herta Field popped back into sight as the Hungarian government announced their release from political prison. The Fields' reaction was typically "arch-individualistic"-instead of dashing for freedom, they elected to repair to a Hungarian hospital and hole up, incommunicado. Hermann, released with apologies three weeks earlier by Poland with the admission that it had all been a terrible mistake, flew to Zurich, where CIA agents slapped a cloak of security around him and hustled him off to a secret reunion with his wife. No one could yet be sure whether the Fields, individually...
...only the rhythms and the rhymes are there to sustain him. The true Lewis Carroll could only come later. Few children learn to love the Alice books at first sight. Their magic is too much born of the lonesomeness and the longing of a witty and sophisticated adult to return again to the gentle irresponsibilities of childhood and to view from there the absurdities of adult life. As a man, Lewis Carroll was an inspired escapist. As a boy, he seemed merely too anxious to be grownup. His bitterest plaint is that against a Victorian Good Fairy...
...week's other big games, Ohio State tightened its grip on Rose Bowl tickets by pounding Purdue, 28-6. To cinch the Big Ten title, the Buckeyes still have to get by once-beaten Michigan, which slammed Michigan State, 33-7. With its seventh Big Seven title in sight, Oklahoma knocked Missouri out of the running...