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...STRANGER, by Morton Thompson, was the year's biggest bestseller, by a writer who died at 45 before his book was published. This sprawling story of a dedicated doctor won its audience with sincerity, energy and enough consulting-room detail to satisfy the most demanding hypochondriac...
Although a new varsity coach has joined three veterans in the winter sports ranks, even he is no stranger to Cambridge--or to the floor of the I.A.B.--where he will lead the basketball team this season. Up from last year's undefeated freshman squad. Floyd Wilson has a one-two team record so far. Cooney Weiland's hockey team is the only other winter squad to play a game so far. The sextet will meet B.C. tomorrow night in its first major contest...
Drama, as usual, was television's old reliable. CBS's Studio One production of An Almanac of Liberty, inspired by Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas' book of essays on America's heritage, pitted a group of townspeople against a stranger with "radical" ideas. Frightened when they discover that time is standing still as a result of their mistreatment of the stranger, a few try to gang up on the intruder only to find that time moves backward with each infringement of another man's rights. At length, they realize that...
...Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, spoke briefly about Little. "The portrait has been given by the generosity of Master Little's friends," Brower said. Demos, in his eulogy, said, "he made the spirit and morale of the House. He was a stranger who very quickly became friends with everybody...
...police headquarters the stranger told his story: He was a 28-year-old Hungarian named Imre Komoroczky, for six years a machinist at the Communists' prized Matyas Rakosi Engineering Works near Budapest. Though even his parents were ardent Communists, Imre took a dim view of the New Order. Once before, in 1950, he had tried to escape to the West in a packing crate, but the crate had broken open during transshipment in Prague. Imre was seized and returned to Hungary to spend 14 months in prison...