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Aquatically, Harvard loses two stars via the sheepskin route. Captain Bill Drucker, who could always be counted on for one victory in the backstroke event and who always supplied a healthy lead in the medley event, graduates, as does Bus Curwen, breast stroker, who strokes and captains the Crimson crew in his spare time. Sprinter John Eusden, a Marine-to-be, will be around for a while...
...your mouth closed. ... If you have to jump from the ship into burning oil you may, if you are a good swimmer, avoid being burned. . . . Jump feet first through the flames. Swim as long as you can under water, then spring above the flames and breathe, taking a breast stroke to push the flames away; then sink and swim under the water again. ... To be able to do this, however, you will have to remove your life belt and other cumbersome clothing. . . . The danger of injury from underwater explosion is lessened by swimming or floating on the back...
...line, like those of the old one in operation since 1935, are granite-floored, clean and glistening, walled with colored marbles, studded with mosaics, friezes, murals and statuettes of Russian workers, soldiers, sailors. An austere statue of Joseph Stalin striding forward, one hand thrust in the breast of his coat, dominates the new terminal platform. The platform was decorated by Professor Vladimir Frolov, who was killed recently in Leningrad after burying mosaics to save them from Nazi shells. A large mural depicts a pilot, a tankman and a tommy-gunner against a background of a mailclad Muscovite warrior standing defiantly...
...somewhat more exact account of music's emotional effects than music's much-reputed power to soothe the human breast was attempted last week in the American Journal of Psychiatry by lanky, bearded Dr. Howard Hanson, dean of Rochester's Eastman School of Music. Dr. Hanson's conclusions pointed to possible uses of music in controlling emotion, and perhaps to a new wrinkle in esthetic theory. His main conclusion...
Alfred Stieglitz has been praised without end in terms both glowing and peculiar. Wrote Esthete Lewis Mumford in 1934: "In a part-by-part revelation of a woman's body, in the isolated presentation of a hand, a breast, a neck, a thigh, a leg, Stieglitz achieved the exact visual equivalent of the hand or the face as it travels over the body of the beloved." Cracked Artist Thomas H. Benton: "When Stieglitz aims his camera at a young woman's backside it is as if he had discovered for the first time in history that young women...