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...Krash, editor, did not deny that Harvard specifically called the tract a "golden mean," hardly a revolution, and that the Report pointedly disclaims originality, attempting to cull the best from both extremes of current controversy: "Without denying the partial value of any . . . views we believe rather that the main task of education is to interpret at all stages both the general and the particular; both the common sphere of truth and the specific avenues of growth and change...
...Lost Weekend (Paramount) follows its dipsomaniac hero to the hangover end of a five-day drunk. A naturalistic horror picture, it is a nightmarish look at the life of a specialized urban type: the fear-paralyzed writer turned alcoholic. In some respects, the picture is a better temperance tract than Charles Jackson's best-selling novel from which it was adapted...
...north, leaving St. John's alone. The president of the American Institute of Architects gave supporting testimony. But Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch, the Academy's superintendent, does not want his men to have to march too far between classes and dormitories. Said he: "There is no other tract of land comparable to the St. John's acreage." When a four-striper, Captain Theodore Wirth, said that the Academy has its traditions too, the crowded committee room cheered...
...Word. Then, from a small voice, he got more definite information: the world would end at exactly 5:33 p.m., Sept. 21. Hastily Long wrote a 70,000-word tract giving the details, sent copies to Stalin, the Pope, Churchill, Harry Truman and governors of the 48 states. (None of them passed the word.) Long decided that the end would come about through atomic dissolution, tried to get on the radio. He wanted to let folks know that ten angels had been assigned the gargantuan task of shooting sinners off to Hell right after the explosion. Station managers refused...
Deep in Pennsylvania's blue Pocono hills is a 350-acre tract of farm and wood land called Kirkridge. In Kirkridge's ram shackle old farmhouse last week were gathered twelve Protestant ministers and laymen who described themselves as spiritually "hungry." Kirkridge is a "retreat" of an unusual kind in the Protestant church. Three years ago a small group of ministers (inspired by Scotland's famed Iona Community) met to plan a "dedicated order" in the Protestant ministry...