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Alumni of Connecticut's Kent School remember a famous function-the night the headmaster sat in for a sick violinist at the prep school's dance. The Rev. Frederick Herbert Sill, priest of the Protestant Episcopal Order of the Holy Cross, fiddled till midnight so that his boys and their girls could dance to proper music. From the raised band platform he could also keep an eye on student manners. Any Kent boy who departed from propriety got a smart rap with the master's fiddle bow as he danced...
Uttar Pradesh's 12 million peasants will henceforth pay taxes direct to the government. They may no longer be evicted from the land they till, even though a zamindar claims it. Those willing to pay ten years of taxes in advance will be granted full ownership of their plots, including the right to sell. Meanwhile, the 2,000,000-odd dispossessed zamindars of Uttar Pradesh, many of them only small holders themselves, will be paid for their lost lands at a rate eight times the land's annual tax value...
...often moving sincerity. It created a suspense (will he make a mistake?) which some found exciting and others painful. While Ike has much off-the-cuff speaking experience, he was not quite equal to the hazards of public-address systems (sound engineers vainly worked on the Detroit p.a. system till the last minute), the emotional impact of facing a vast crowd, the split-minute timing necessary for TV and radio. Ike rambled on about Berlin, then saw a TV technician flashing a warning sign that he had only three minutes to go: Ike threw away part of what...
...cheer up some 1,000 low-grossing movie exhibitors at a morale meeting, Evangelist Billy Graham popped in with an idea for curing the industry's ailments. Cried Graham: "Take sex and crime out of the movies. We've had so much sex in this country till we're sick to death of it. That's why people stay away. Decent people are ashamed...
...majority of these travelers are still going by ship, although the airlines, helped by their new tourist rates, will carry almost as many. Like the planes, tourist space on the stately Queens, the elegant Ile de France, the Independence, Constitution, and all the other liners, is sold out till September. By midsummer, France will add her 23-knot, 20,300-ton Flandre to the transatlantic fleet, and Holland will put her 15,000-ton, 875-passenger Maasdam into service. But the prize of the new ships is the United States Lines' new superliner United States, the biggest passenger ship...