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...spotlight on the problems created by poverty, unemployment, disease, crime, and a fanatic white-supremacist government is not all that Drum gives the 65,000 readers who buy it every month. Its some 40 illustrated pages serve up a blend of Negro and colored (i.e., mixed blood) life, sports, society, sex, scandal and politics that South Africa's non-whites can get in no other magazine. It was started by Publisher Bailey, 33, an ex-R.A.F. combat pilot, who settled down to raise sheep and breed horses after the war. As editor, Bailey picked a white South African...
...Scratchy resignedly throws away his six-shooter and says farewell once & for all to his glorious gun-toting past. In James Agee's lean adaptation and in some peppery performances, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky captures much of Crane's pungent idiom, and becomes a spry blend of gun-in-holster and tongue-in-cheek...
...motive force behind the Schools Committees of the Crimson Key and the nation's Harvard Clubs has been a subtle blend of two strands of chauvenism. The first is local pride, which students bring to College with them and transform into Southerners Clubs and Chicago cliques; the second is Harvard pride, which graduates carry out of Cambridge and store up in great quantities in their local Harvard Clubs...
...heady blend of tradition and emotion, the ancient (since 1875) football series between Harvard and Yale has no peer. Once, in a locker room just before The Game, famed Yale Coach Tad Jones told his awe-struck squad, in all seriousness: "Gentlemen, you are about to meet Harvard in a game of football. Never again in your lives will you do anything as important...
...Piper had stayed in Paris, he might have been an abstractionist still. But he and his wife moved to a 17th century farmhouse in a valley near Henley-on-Thames. Gradually, the nature he saw around him drew him off on another track. His new style set out to blend geometric designs with the more amorphous shapes of reality-or, as he once expressed it, "a combination of a crystal and a potato, with neither predominating too much...