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...been discovered at the Graduate School that the women suffer academically for the time spent on other pursuits. "Their previous training is as good as the men get," George P. Springer, Dean of Admissions, said. An officer of the School of Music felt that some of their undergraduate girls experience 'strain' in the effort to keep up. Most of the students seemed to feel that the toughest part of getting a Yale degree was gaining admittance...
Edward Finnegan's Harry Hope is perfect; Judge Springer's Hickey--which is an even more difficult role--is very close to perfect. Edward Zang (Willie), Ralf Coleman (Joe) and Michael Lilenthal (Hugo) begin well and get better as they go along...
Cocker and Springer Spaniels make excellent dogs for pheasant. Rather than point game, most spaniels flush it, often leaping spectacularly into the air in an effort to catch birds on the wing. Waterfowl hunters occasionally use water spaniels, but generally take their choice of the three retrieving specialists: the Labrador Retriever, Golden Retriever or Chesapeake Bay Retriever...
Unlike German publishers of the '30s, who through ambition or complaisance became propaganda tools for Hitler, Axel Springer is an outspoken internationalist and firm friend of the West who believes that his mission, in his own words, is to "help the 'other' Germany, the nonmilitant, peaceful Germany of great scientists, great spirits, great minds." He is also untypical of European publishers in having no apparent political ties or ambition...
Hateful Word. The son of an obscure Hamburg book publisher, Publisher Springer sat out World War II with a respiratory ailment and at war's end was among the first Germans to win an Allied license to start a magazine. With profits from Hör zu! he launched Hamburger Abendblatt, his first daily, in 1948, and five years later won out over 16 other bidders when the British decided to sell their occupation paper Die Welt (for an estimated...