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Underlying the whole academic effort is a thirst for knowledge. Just the use of English as the medium for all communication presents a challenge. Students read into the small hours--and not to cram for examinations, for the only academic hurdles are voluntary papers suggested by their seminar leaders...
...thirst of movie audiences for a not-too-delicate combination of the two M's, marriage and murder, evidently has not yet been quenched. Bouncing back after "The Two Mrs. Carrolls," "Monsicur Verdoux," and a number of Grade B blood-curdlers, our ready producers have served up a Bluebeard in petticoats this time. Margaret Lockwood, sultry as an English actress could ever be, glides through the urbane intricacies and mad histrionics of "Bedelia" with murder in her heart and sex in "her soft white arms." Though the denouement is overlong and overplayed, the picture is saved by its tightly-constructed...
...Thirst for Victory...
...Elis, who came to Cambridge with great expectations and a thirst for victory unquenched since 1916, went away not much better off. Kane lead his team to a convincing 10 to 3 victory in the Stadium...
...Thirst for Knowledge. Reported missing by worried Harvard University authorities, Student Samuel E. Stuart, 25, was discovered in New York on the ninth day, explained that he had been so engrossed in studies that he really hadn't realized how long he had been away until he read all about it in a newspaper...