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...Coffin broke Dartmouth's backstroke record down at Princeton and, with Phil Pendleton, may surprise the varsity's All-American, Don Mulvey. Off the board Dartmouth has Jim Venman and Tuck Creamer, which means the Crimson divers will have to be good...
Even the lesser characters are hewed to the party line. Maid Marion is subtly un-American as she romps with the Merrie Men and casually disavows Motherhood. Friar Tuck is nothing if not the cleric who has lost all vestiges of his religion in the service of the state. But the author was most clever in his treatment of Little John; by proper manipulation of the dialectic, Little John Becomes its antithesis...
...public schoolboys in Britain -not even excluding Tom Brown-none is better known or more persistent than Billy Bunter of Greyfriars. A round, owlish fellow, he is forever stealing other chaps' "tuck" (cakes, cream puffs, tarts, toffee). He is hopeless at athletics, can't seem to spell ("I wood have toled you myself but you wood not lissen . . ."), is perpetually in a "digamma," and is constantly delivering such Bunterisms as "How sharper than a thankless child it is to have a toothless "serpent...
...look to for leadership at North American itself is Board Chairman James Howard ("Dutch") Kindelberger, 58, a beefy (6 ft., 194 Ibs.), salty-tongued West Virginian whose fringe of white hair and twinkling blue eyes make him look like a modern-day Friar Tuck. Kindel-berger, who learned to fly in World War I. has devoted his life to turning out better and faster planes...
...order to get a large part of the debt away from banks which would use it to expand credit, the Treasury offered $1 billion worth of 30-year bonds, with an interest rate (3¼%) high enough to make insurance companies and ordinary individuals want to buy them and tuck them away. In its wake came additional rises in general interest on loans, mortgages, etc. There are already loud complaints that money is too tight. Actually, credit is still rising. However, the credit base is not expanding enough to let everyone borrow all he wants...