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...Thirteen members of the class were elected to the Massachusetts Iota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, it was announced today. New members are Grace O. Adkins of South Norwalk, Conn.; Mari Jane DeCosta of Highland Park, III.; Anna Fellner of New Haven, Conn.; Faith Howard of Westmount, Quebec; and Ellen Franzen, Deirdre Hubbard, and Sheila LaFarge, all of New York City. Also Amy Mims, of Chicago, III.; Carol S. Powers of Swampscott, Mass.; Virginia Rhinelander of Stanford, Calif.; Sallyann A. Sack of Cleveland, Ohio; and Judith Schultz of Huntington Valley, Penn...
Chico Hamilton Quintet (Pacific Jazz). Thirteen of the dapper, low-keyed arrangements that have made Drummer Hamilton an important figure in the jazz of the West Coast. There are such oldies as September Song (in which the theme is only obliquely hinted at in the bass), but more new numbers such as Bass Player Carson Smith's Chanel #5, which is shot through with a wistful flute solo...
...there are four 0-words the people refuse to give up: hope. love, valor, and one other that remains not too mysteriously hidden until the final pages. The islanders rebel and, with the aid of beneficent magic, rout the pirates. Like his charming 1950 fable, The Thirteen Clocks, Thurber's new fairy story is written for a special breed of children and adults-those who like their anagrams and riddles sprinkled with poetic dust. Curiously, the author deprives Pirate Black of an argument that might have won the Ooroovians to his cause: even with the abolition...
...however, the style in 321 is in most cases lamentable and occassionally nauseating. It plumments to its nadir of tired Timeiness in the section on polls. in which Seniors are told that they can hear "the pitter-patter of little feet...in the near distance" and that they are thirteen percent directed by "libidinous impulses, another word for raw sex." This sort of childishness suggests that the Yearbookmen are not really quite sure for whom they are writing. Indeed, it is a problem whether they should aim at the Senior or at Mother. But in either case, the Yearbook ought...
...which were given over to original student scripts), and two were concert readings under the aegis of the Workshop. The plays drew from many categories: ancient Greek, medieval morality, Shakespearean and other Elizabethan drama, eighteenth-century comedy, nineteenth-century Russian and modern European and American drama. The other thirteen items were musical, comprising eighteenth-and nineteenth-century comedy and modern American comedy and tragedy...