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Several workmen labored all afternoon on the roof of Widener Library and bored holes, at carefully measured ten foot intervals, into the ledge around the interior court. In these holes were inserted poles with strings dangling from the end. At the end of each string there is a nine inch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OWLS IN THE EAVES, ALAS | 5/17/1961 | See Source »

The two pictures point up both the virtues and the faults of Russian films. In fact, the good and bad flow from the same source, for the Russian view of life is a strongly emotional one. These films project a strong feeling of the land and the lives of its...

Author: By Randall A. Collins, | Title: Mumu and the Colt | 3/27/1961 | See Source »

FROM his Philadelphia office, Symes shoots down to Washington several times a month in his private railroad car (with cook, steward, three bedrooms, dining room, observation lounge). Nattily dressed and usually puffing a Camel (his male secretary always carries extra packs), Symes tickles legislators with his hearty humor and ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: JAMES MILLER SYMES | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

As with all students, Harvard provides Southerners with the advantages of a superior Liberal Arts education, but this education sways the Southern view on segregation--pro and con-scarcely at all. The College can provide them no formula for arriving at a single unchallengable answer and so each goes still...

Author: By A Southerner, | Title: 'Not Our Kind of People' | 9/30/1958 | See Source »

Marie O'Hara is pretty, and Colin, her escort, is falling-down drunk, so it is only natural for the nightclub pianist who is the nameless narrator-hero of this novel to offer help. Even as the trio sways "like a chorus line" through the nighttime streets of North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Three's a Crowd | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

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