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...would not predict whether he would bring a better price than his rivals but pointed out that the Tufts man is 22, an ex-marine, and a fine specimen. M.I.T. has chipped in with a Delta Tau Delta, and "that's very good...
...film would be worth seeing if only for these portraits and the psychological story which they tell; but it is also fascinating as a specimen of modern, secular hagiography. In that respect it can wholly satisfy only those who are unquestioningly convinced of Roosevelt's greatness. The claim that the picture is completely nonpolitical is absurd. It is not only intensely political, but biased and sentimental; e.g., there is no recognition of such failures in international diplomacy as the Yalta conference. The comments of the plain people who remember and tell the Roosevelt story are mawkish examples of common...
...Yogi & the Commissar. Andrei Gromyko is an almost perfect neo-paleolithic specimen. When the Communist Party hacked its bloody way to power in 1917, Gromyko was eight years old. He, like millions with him and after him, never had a toy, a dream, a book or an ideal that was not somehow tinged by the penetrating hue of Communist dogma. That such men exist, that they occupy positions of power is one of the most important facts in today's world. Gromyko does not belong in the category of the commissars of the 1920s, who were far more imaginative...
...trip home through Egypt, Palestine, England, and Wales, flying denizens of all these places found their way into the Rothenberg game bag, including his largest and most valuable specimen...
...specimen is still lacking to make the collection complete, admitted Rothenberg yesterday. For months he has been passing the Lampoon building, enviously staring at the magnificent wishbone concealed beneath the plumage of a second theskiornia which adorns the Bow Street tile palacer...