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Because he concocts his cartoons out of local news items, and refuses to change his ways, mild-mannered Francis Dahl has never been syndicated. But for his collections of reprints (LeftHanded Compliments; What! More Dahl?), he would be unknown outside New England. This week, in his fourth book (Dahl's Boston; Atlantic Monthly Press-Little, Brown; $2.50), he offered the world peripheral to Boston another peek at "the American Athens." This time Dahl had a collaborator: cheery, pipe-smoking Charles W. Morton, associate editor of the Atlantic Monthly...
...history Department, asserted that "there is nothing sensational about this move; it has been contemplated for some time." To "clear up confusion" he added that his Department would continue to accept holders of S.B.'s for enrollment leading to an advanced degree. This fact, Owen thought, was unknown to many students, even inside the College...
...ordered a newsy, nosy, plain-speaking society column called "Artie Angeleno Observes." Hearst's San Francisco Examiner already had a "Fred die Francisco." Both were patterned after the New York Journal-American's long standing "Cholly Knickerbocker." In Los Angeles, Hearst picked a newspaperman, and a social unknown at that...
Peaceful Heights. Above the danger zone, most experts hope, lies an unknown but safer range. Airplanes that could accelerate (and decelerate) fast enough to pass safely through the enormous supersonic room would have to behave like bullets or shells, leaving harmlessly behind them the sound waves their motion creates. But no one knows at present how to get over even the perilous threshold without suffering disaster...
...monarchist, classicist France, a few young, unknown romantics such as Victor Hugo took fire from De I'Amour. But it received only two reviews-both of which were written secretly by Stendhal himself. In Germany, the aging Goethe read History of Painting in Italy and Rome, Naples and Florence-the enthusiastic studies of Italian painters and passions signed "M. de Stendhal, former cavalry officer," and remarked appreciatively, "This man knows how to use others with skill." It was an apt remark, for it was Stendhal's habit to lift his material from others' books and then calmly...