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...Andover preschoolers find time hanging heavy on their hands tomorrow afternoon, it will be through no fault of the Crimson's Freshman teams. A small army of Yardling trackmen, wrestlers, and basketball players will provide the Academy with a three-ring athletic circus, while attempting to grab Victoria from its traditional rivals...
Into a Los Angeles courtroom last week shuffled gangling, 53-year-old William Tatem Tilden II, once the world's greatest tennis player. His fault: homosexuality (he had been caught in a parked car with a 14-year-old ball boy from the Los Angeles Tennis Club...
Hedy Lamarr, who wants to break a picture contract with Producer Arnold Pressburger because she expects a baby in March, lost a court fight to have her case heard before the baby arrives. "Miss Lamarr's condition," gravely deposed the producer, "came about not through any fault of my own, but due entirely to an act on the part of the plaintiff which was solely within the plaintiff's own control...
...qualities of suspense and its Austrian atmosphere, Author Millar's story recalls Ethel Vance's best-selling novel Escape (TIME, Sept. 25, 1939). Not particularly profound, it is swift and very readable. As a novel it has a fault typical of most such efforts to recreate recent history: the writer has tried to include characters symbolic of everything, from France to the U.S. officer corps...
...sequence mechanism can also be brought into play to introduce logarithmic tables, interpolating tables, or any other functions needed for a specific problem. Also introduced into the sequence on each problem are orders to check the results at various stages of each operation. And should a mechanical fault or even some faults in the statement of the problem appear, the machine will stop computing until the "bug" has been corrected...