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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians like America's Voice? Reported New York's World-Telegram in a memorable headline: RUSSIANS RESTRAIN JOY OVER U.S. BROADCAST. Listeners who were interviewed said that they liked the music, found that the text did "not sound American." But the Voice of America (which has a long way to travel via an insufficient relay station in Munich) was completely inaudible on all but the very best Russian radio sets, which are owned by the very best Communists...
...each of the text questions, five possible answers are given. You are to select the best answer and put its number on the answer sheet next to the number of that question. Example: 0. The President of the United States...
Vacillating professors and the sellers' market in text books have necessitated the establishment of a special veterans' book department in Weld Hall to take care of veterans who have purchased books only to find the book lists changed and their shelves full of expensive and relatively worthless tomes...
...most, it would merely delay books for the length of time it took mail from Cambridge to reach the publisher. This happy situation no longer holds true. Dilatory professors may not only hold up the student unduly, since stocks are not complete, but may keep him from getting the text at all. There is no need for this reluctance in picking out texts now, nor has there ever been an entirely adequate one. Some courses have had their February lists in since October. Since the choice is no longer in many cases between a good book and a better book...
This week, in an impressive volume (Faces of Destiny, Ziff-Davis; $5) Karsh, now 38, shows 75 of the best pictures of the 500 notables he has snapped. In an explanatory text he also discourses on his subjects. Here & there, in his sitters' studio manners, he finds a few minor guideposts to history...