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...Notably absent from the celebration was rangy Frederic B. Rentschler, chairman of United Aircraft. Modest Fred Rentschler, who did not want to steal any glory from Chance Vought's general manager, Rex Beisel, was on his farm, "Renbrook," in West Hartford. As usual, he had taken home a batch of work. Rentschler's homework has paid United some handsome dividends...
...days, Sudanese bridegrooms could marry for an $8 dowry instead of the usual expensive outlay for bridal clothes and marriage feasts. Four hundred bridegrooms took advantage of the cut rate. They faced their brides' proxies (the brides' fathers) and took the marriage vows. While the absent, newlywed wives waited expectantly at home, the menfolk took off to pub-crawl the cafés of flag-decked Omdurman, to feast, sing and dance...
Even the present session is likely to be a pallid reflection of an ordinary term. Many of the first string instructors are in Europe or otherwise absent. An enrollment of less than fifteen hundred is hardly enough to support anything more than token extra curricular activities. Sports there will be, but only for the participants, not for the spectators. They will be extremely informal. Publications will be scarcely better off. The "Advocate" and "Radditudes" are not scheduled for the summer. Such activities as remain functional will be operating on a reduced schedule...
Ever present in Kingsblood Royal is Lewis' old, skilled ability to catalogue sarcastically the interiors of middle-class American homes and offices. Ever absent is what talent he once possessed for building characters out of flesh & blood rather than rage and cardboard...
...slightly more nebulous is the problem of developing "more sense of a community at Harvard." Not meaning by this the "rah-rah" spirit of some colleges, Bender rather feels the need for reviving that "sense of sharing a common life and common problems" that has been noticeably absent from the local scene in these reconstruction years. Obviously no easy task, the future dean admits doubts as to finding an easy solution, but his awareness of the problem offers hope for eventual improvement in student interrelations while at the same time preserving individualism...