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...from Iowa. Yuri was born on a collective farm near the small town of Gzhatsk, 100 miles west of Moscow. The young boy shone in the local school, and after completing the sixth grade, he was sent to manual training school in a Moscow suburb. He graduated as a molder, but never worked at this skilled trade; his record was good enough to get him into an "industrial technicum" (a sort of technical junior college) at Saratov on the Volga. While there, he learned to fly at the Saratov Aero Club and was admitted to the Soviet air force...
Coach John Molder of Columbia rates his team as an improved, well-balanced outfit. He respects the Crimson, he said last night, but looks for a repetition of last year's tight game. The Lions have lost this fall to Yale and Princeton, and have beaten Fordham...
...Unlike Molder, Crimson mentor Bruce Munro has problems on the physical condition of his players. Among the question roarks are fullback Sandy Cortesi, wing Sam Rodd, and wing Chris Martin--all victims of recent disabilities...
...Just a Jughead." Cleveland-born Hugo Robus, also 75, the son of an iron molder, managed to get to Paris in 1912. His ambition was to paint, but he found himself "so fascinated by form that I was building paint upon my canvases a quarter of an inch thick. It became expensive, so I decided to find a medium I could af-i'ord." Back in the U.S., he supported himself and his wife, who died a year and a half ago, by designing textiles and making silverware and jewelry. His studio was soon filled with his lithe...
Both Kafka and Orwell might have created the author's weird wine cellar-Kafka so that the flyers might molder in the hallucinatory dark, Orwell in order that they might escape to comment ironically on the world's regress. But British Author Shaw, a stage and movie actor who wrote the book between engagements, describes his characters deftly in the manner of the standard psychological novel. Hans is a latent homosexual who tends his human house pets as a kind of offering to his Fuehrer and his dead, domineering mother. Wilson, the older of the two flyers...