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...strong stuff of the novel-Injun Joe's mysteriously sinister nature, the murder in the graveyard, Becky and Tom lost in the cave, even Huckleberry Finn's subversive restlessness-is truncated and flattened. The idea seems to be to avoid offending those modern-day Aunt Pollys and Widder Douglases who think, despite such recent good examples as The Railway Children and Sounder, that the term "family entertainment" can only be defined as a synonym for blandness...
...widder woman at age 39 is perfectly justified in giving thought to her economic future. Particularly when she is down to her last 20 million bucks...
...Second Time Around, with Director Vincent Sherman to spur her flair for foolery, Debbie corrals a herd of yaks in what might otherwise have proved just one more way-in western. She plays a young "widder lady" from back East who arrives in Arizona, signs on as a ranch hand and runs through the tenderfoot routine-but in style. When she climbs up one side of a horse, she falls down the other. When she tries to wrangle a calf, she ends up flat on her face in the barnyard muck. When she shingles a roof, she rolls...
...larger departments have found compliance with the economies easier and have already made large reductions in their budgets. David V. Widder '20, Chairman of the Department of Mathematics, said last night that his department planned a one-third reduction in the number of personnel on "annual salaries." Widder also stated that a cut had been made in the budgeting for office supplies...
Joseph L. Walsh '16, Perkins Professor of Mathematics, will hold office from July 1 to January 31. David V. Widder '20, professor of Mathematics, will take office on February 1 and hold it until June 30; he will be followed by Garrett Birkhoff '32, professor of Mathematics...