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Died. Dorothy Canfield Fisher, 79, novelist (The Bent Twig) and magazine writer, member for a quarter-century of the Book-of-the-Month Club selection board; in Arlington...
U.C.L.A. Once "not a branch of Berkeley, but a twig," in the recollection of one educator, the University of California at Los Angeles has begun to catch up with Berkeley in capacity (16,081 students last fall). In some areas, U.C.L.A. Chancellor Raymond B. Allen declares, his school surpasses Berkeley in academic excellence. Added to the university in 1919, 46 years after Berkeley started classes, the school has a less finished look, a bigger parking problem and a less famed faculty, jealously compares honors won (1958 Guggenheims: eleven for U.C.L.A., 19 for Berkeley...
...Little, Too Late. Despite Kennan's strenuous objectivity, one inescapable conclusion leaps from the pages of his book-taken rapidly and resolutely, the decision to intervene would have snapped Bolshevik power like a twig. More than a score of separate Russian governments were contesting Lenin's right to rule on Russian soil. The Russian people were famine-ridden and war-weary. Lenin himself relied on endless improvisation. If this was one of history's great lost opportunities, the chief culprit was Wood-row Wilson. Democrat Kennan admits: "[Wilson] drew onto himself, ultimately, the blame for the failure...
Portugal's Dictator Oliveira Salazar tolerates the presence of a royal pretender to the Portuguese throne: Dom Duarte Nuno, 50, a recent settler in Lisbon, and the twig upon a branch of Portugal's royal family tree. Last week Dom Duarte got some royal competition. Portugal's anti-Nuno monarchist faction presented a petition in Rome to well-preserved Princess Maria Pia of Saxe-Coburg Braganga. 50, an illegitimate child of Portugal's assassinated (in 1908) King Carlos I, to start pretending. A pro-Maria spokesman gave short shrift to Dom Duarte: "That impostor must never...
...Then a twig snapped. Hunter Lloyd Cline shouted: "Here he comes...