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...abroad. As dark and demoniac as Pnin is gentle and sunlit, this novel has in the past year become a sotto voce scandal on two continents. Lolita, published in English by France's Olympia Press, gives the pornography-v.-art debate its most combustible tinder since Judge Woolsey handed down his famed decision on Ulysses...
Back to the 19th Century? The Congregationalist president of Amherst College, Charles Woolsey Cole, takes a more hopeful view of the phenomenon-at least at college level. In Harper's he writes: "Youth at present is almost completely monogamous in a thoroughly established fashion, and it is aggressively sure that its customs and ways are right...
...Jorgensen (2:07.7) placed third behind Indiana's Bill Woolsey (2:04.7) and Iowa State's Jim McKevitt...
Captain Jim Jorgensen (2:06.9) should improve over his fourth place finish last year in the 220. Only Indiana's Bill Woolsey (2:05.9) has posted a faster time this year. Gerald Tanable, also of Indiana, is on a par with Jorgensen...
...Hear This. In Council Bluffs, Iowa, alarmed because the air-raid sirens of Omaha, just across the Missouri River, do not provide full coverage, Civil Defense Chairman Ernest Woolsey announced his own plans for alerting everyone by 1) sending up a 7,000-ft. column of red smoke, 2) exploding an aerial fireworks bomb, 3) releasing helium-filled balloons, and 4) spraying Council Bluffs with a mixture of powdered sugar and peppermint, so that the warning could be both smelled and tasted...