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The Soviet peace talk might go on for months, or it might end tomorrow-with an all-out Communist offensive in Korea. It is already producing some of the results the Communists want. In the free world, there is wistful talk of relaxing. The timorous argue that every armament race...
Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart had a similar bone to pick with the Pentagon. The Army had asked Cartoonist George Baker to donate the use of his baggy, wistful comic-strip child, Sad Sack, to help the recruiting drive. Sad Sack first appeared in Yank, the wartime weekly, became...
These days, however, De Pisis is no longer the eccentric Venetian man-about-town. Thin and aged beyond his years, he lives at a sanitarium outside Milan, for the past three years the victim of recurrent nervous disorders. He uses a cobweb-festooned greenhouse on the grounds as his studio...
"I Give These Books." The college that was to grow into Yale University was born on a table top in the parlor of a trim farmhouse in Branford, Conn. To that house, one day in 1700-when Harvard was already 64 years old and Princeton still 46 years away-came...
The poetry is probably the best part of the issue, though it is spotty in the extreme. "Continental Lyre," by Clement B. Wood '47, is a lively and clever account of the tribulations of the traveller in Europe, it probably contains the least-force humor of the issue. David McCord...