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...Adventures of Tom Sawyer . . . was made by Mr. Mark Twain," explains Huckleberry Finn in opening the tale of his own adventures, "and he told the truth mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth...
Porkkala is the name of a 150-sq. mi. enclave just west of Helsinki (see map) that Finland was forced to "lease" to Stalin by the Russian-dictated peace treaty of 1947. There on Finnish soil, behind a secrecy no Finn is al lowed to penetrate, the Russians maintain a division of troops and train their long-range guns on the water lanes to Leningrad. The Russians allow Finnish trains from Helsinki to Turku to pass through Porkkala, but Russian locomotives (actually U.S.-made, sent under lend-lease) pull them, and the windows are sealed with sheet steel...
...That thing you said about Huckleberry Finn was not true. I am in third grade and I can read Huckleberry Finn. When I was even younger I saw the movie of Hamlet. I liked Huckleberry Finn very much . . . Hamlet is very nice too. I am eight and a half. I am reading Robinson Coruso, now, I don't no weather Huckleberry Finn or Robinson Coruso are best, but I'll soon find out. After I finesh Robinson Coruso I am going to read Hans Brinker. It will proply be good...
...artificial triangle: Dizzy loves both his wife (Joanne Dru) and baseball. More authentic but with no higher cinematic batting average is the movie's climax: Dizzy triumphing over objections by teachers' organizations to his barefoot-boy grammar on the airwaves. Dan Dailey makes a likable Huck Finn in spikes, complete with such Dean-Arkansas accents as "slud into third base" and "the batter takes a stanch at the plate." In their own way, Joanne Dru's curves are as impressive as Dizzy...
...addition to these, there are others the center has reservations about. They are marked "not unacceptable, but . . ." Huckleberry Finn is "not unacceptable, but like giving Hamlet to an eighth grader." As for Hans Brinker: or, The Silver Skates, it is "a good story, but should be accompanied by a story of modern Holland to avoid the wooden shoe stereotype...