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...Sixteen seamen stood before the Probate, Divorce & Admiralty Division of Britain's High Court one day last week. Fifteen of them were survivors of the British tanker San Demetrio, veterans of the Jervis Bay convoy (TIME, Nov. 25); the other, a representative of a dead comrade. What they had to add to the saga was as epic as the battle itself...
Hawaii leads among foreign students in the college with a total of nine, while England has seven. There are three each from Germany and France and one from Palestine. In the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences China is second to Canada with sixteen as opposed to twenty...
...George Lott and Berkeley Bell still send their racquets up here for restringing. And the shop annually receives its order from an old Harvardian, now living in Singapore. All in all, upwards of 75,000 stringing jobs have been turned out at 67a Mt. Auburn Street in the past sixteen years...
...Professor Harold Rugg-TIME, Sept. 9), Superintendent Spinning had polled the city's 17,000 high-school students, found that 99.22% approved the U. S. form of government. Less than 1% had read any schoolbooks which, they thought, "break down the loyalty of pupils to the United States." Sixteen of them said Professor Rugg's did so. Others denounced as subversive The Man Without A Country, the World Almanac...
...Yorker publishes the best prose fiction in America and that a splendid sampling of that fiction has been brought together to make this book. A warning, at this point: the New Yorker's prose style, a unique melancholy compounded out of many samples over a period of not quite sixteen years, is not very much in evidence in this collection. The witty, nostalgic, acid manner of the "Talk of the Town" hovers vaguely behind a few of the stories, but only a few. And there are no more than three stories that can be called funny...