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Svirsky majored in English and took a smattering of History and Psychology during his stay in Elitown. "But," he says, "I think I'm learning more in one year her than I did in tow years at Yale." He takes advantage of the free run of the University offered to Nieman Fellows, auditing, among others, a course at the Medical School...
...Cambridge), windmills and crossed-oar badges took up stands they hadn't filled since the last Boat Race Day, seven years ago. By 11, just before high tide, when the Thames is quiet and indulgent, a half-million Londoners had lined both sides of the Thames's tow-paths as their fathers & grandfathers had before them, off & on, for 117 years. Almost everybody brought hampers of food, and some brought stepladders. It was England's first big sporting event since...
...last Friday's cold, grey dawn, two tall and dead-serious Royal Canadian Mounted Policemen knocked on the door of an Ottawa apartment. When the door opened, they walked in. Shortly they walked out again-with the sleepy occupant in tow...
...into the post at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., and turned himself in as a deserter, to the first 2nd lieutenant he met. The lieutenant was astounded at his story and took him to his captain who took him to the major, who, etc. etc. By nightfall Donovan was in tow of a full colonel, making the rounds of the officers' club and post cocktail parties, on exhibition as a very conscientious...
Finis? The unlucky ex-French liner Normandie was added to the list of surplus property for sale by the Navy. Probable last trip of the 80,000-ton liner (on which the Navy spent $11 million for salvage after she burned and capsized in 1942) will be an ignoble tow to a junk yard...