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After three years as head of our Shanghai bureau, Bill Gray was coming home. He decided to combine his return with a vacation for himself, his wife, and their children: Bruce, 4; Larry, 7; Margrethe, 11. Fortified by smallpox vaccinations and inoculations against plague, typhus, typhoid fever and cholera, the Grays set out for a 15,000-mile journey via eight different national airlines and a steamship company. Their departure from Shanghai resounded with exploding firecrackers set off by their Chinese servants to remove the evil spirits from their route. Says Gray...
...clock back. We shall live for many years in a restless world and may find that the close contacts between the nations serve to emphasize friction rather than to advance the unity of men. A crisis in this sort of world may not be a turning point in the fever chart but a long sustained plateau of tension...
Long after football fever has died away for the year and hockey and basketball have taken the spotlight, a hardy but little-known group of Crimson athletes will still be working at their chilly specialty...
...Football fever may be sweeping the Yard, but that doesn't bother basketball Coach Bill Barclay's varsity candidates. Thirty-six of them reported to Barclay last night at Hemenway Gymnasium for the Crimson's first 1948-49 hoop workout...
...both the gift and the burden of his life. He was "deep," and brainy enough to see and explore with detachment the dangers, for one of his heritage, in the life of imagination. For generations that heritage had been profoundly Puritan. After his sea-captain father died of yellow fever in Surinam, his mother lived in Salem as a recluse; his uncle, Robert Manning, took charge of Nathaniel's education and alienated the boy thoroughly. He became evasive and apparently indolent, writing in puns and private language to his sisters, even writing invisibly, in skim milk-a trick that...