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...Dennis Gray, he describes a schoolboy's shock to a first confrontment with homosexuality and abnormal punishment. Dennis Gray, a student in a small prep school, is a finely-drawn character, whose nerves tighten at every small crisis. The tremendous tension created in a single afternoon snaps his recuperative mechanism so that he must build it all over again. Stewart's style in this piece is especially interesting, since he changes it sharply at the climax, switching from a rambling impressionistic picture to sharp realistic prose. This method is well meant, but I think it tends to weaken the story...
...price level; if the government had told industry what could be expected from the price office, as Wilson tried to do, and had kept to its decision, as Truman failed to do, there might well have been a speedy agreement. As it was, Truman decided to tighten up on prices in the midst of negotiations. The inevitable breakdown occurred, forcing him to seize the mills and so precipitate a political storm which now threatens the whole Defense Production...
...then find no tenants at the rents they would have to charge. House builders have another problem. They blame the slackened demand on Regulation X (they call it "Regulation Ax"), which requires down payments of 4% to 50%, and on a shortage of mortgage money. It. began to tighten up when Government bonds were unpegged a year ago, and interest rates started rising...
...Elis are 1-9 in the Eastern Intercollegiate League and 11-14 in overall play, while the varsity's record is 0-10 and 5-13. But Shepard and the players think they have a good chance to win tonight, if they can stop Yale's fast break and tighten their own man-to-man defense...
Lowell House best Eliot, 47 to 37, in 'A' league basketball last night to tighten its hold on first place in the league. The Elephants' Dan Steiner was high scorer with 14 points, followed by Larry Corser of Lowell with ten, Kirkland and Dudley had previously been tied with Lowell for first place...