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Captain Sisto resigned (many airmen thought he should have been fired, many others thought he should have been jailed). If the plane had crashed, killing passengers and crew, it would doubtless have been added to the list of unexplainable accidents...
When future historians investigate the culture of the early 20th Century, they will look farther afield than the newspapers; magazines and books also tell the human news of their day. Among the files the historians will consult will be the little magazines-and one of them will doubtless be Chicago's slim Poetry: a Magazine of Verse. Last week, in a special 72-page number marking its 35 years of life, Poetry took a historical look at itself...
Wrote Deutsch, in the current issue of the weekly journal School & Society: "It must not be forgotten that the choice will doubtless be cited as an impressive precedent whenever a new college president is to be chosen. If one able and successful general . . . why not other military leaders? . . . Trustees will realize that what a famous general says will always gain publicity, and he will be in constant demand. . . . They may hope that such a man will be welcomed everywhere-including the circles of the well-to-do-and will bring in funds in large amounts to the institution...
DeMille is a movie pioneer in various other respects, too. He did as much as any other man to develop "spectacle" movies. He doubtless did more than any other man, with his extravagant bathing scenes, to turn the U.S. bathroom into a national pride. He was the first Hollywoodian to risk a movie on an all-out religious theme (The Ten Commandments, 1923). He was among the first to use "effect lighting." He pioneered with the camera boom and the "blimp" (silencing insulation which permits the sound camera to move freely). He was among the first to use color...
Sundry college elevens will doubtless display superior football somewhere on the national gridiron front today, but from the estimated crowd of 45,000 persons who have anteed up as much as four dollars for Stadium seats, the general reaction seems to be, "Who cares?" Dartmouth's in town again and that's all that really matters...