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...Book. Exam Schedules Exam Group Final Exam I June 6 II June 3 III June 9 IV June 5 V May 29 VI May 26 VII June 10 VIII June 4 IX June 10 X May 28 XI June 2 XII June 7 XIII May 31 XIV May 27 XV May 28 XVI June 4 XVII June 6 XVIII...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: Press Refuses Printing Of 'Obscene' Advocate | 4/23/1952 | See Source »

...setting for this is France in the days of the Fronde--1648--when a group of Parisians were trying to divest the Queen-mother and her ten year old son, Louis XIV, of power. In a thoroughgoing revision of history, the original Musketeers' children save the Queen from her precarious position, rescue the Sun King from a monestery, and save his sister from the clutches of a bonafide villain in the old style, the Duc de Laville. For additional merriment, Ferris and Hofman have provided that Athos, one of the original Three Musketeers, should have a daughter (Maureen O'Hara...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Sword's Point | 2/26/1952 | See Source »

January 31, Group XIV...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Examination Schedule | 12/12/1951 | See Source »

...Louis XIV's labyrinthine palace at Versailles took 56,000 men, 9,000 horses and 20 years to build, and cost $100 million. But in recent years it has become increasingly apparent that King Louis' builders valued surface splendor above sturdiness. In 1925, John D. Rockefeller Jr. went to Versailles' rescue with $1,360,000, most of which was used to repair the 27 acres of roofs. Last week André Cornu, under secretary of fine arts, warned that unless the government can raise another $15 million for repairs* the palace may go to pieces without much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Royal House of Cards | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...Marshalls is Volume VII in Morison's history of U.S. naval operations in World War II, and marks the halfway mark in the Harvard professor's long literary voyage. "Now that the outward passage is ended," he says comfortably, "we shall be homeward bound shortly." After Volume XIV, tentatively titled The Liquidation of the Japanese Empire, Morison expects to put into port at 71, a reasonable retirement age for a lean Yankee seafarer (who was officially retired this summer as a reserve rear admiral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Central Pacific Spectacle | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

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