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Briefly, it tells of three dead people whose souls are given three days to decide where they would like to go, Valhalla, Erehwon, or Xanadu, all substitutes for censored sections of the Afterworld. There are two subplots: a search for the Ring of Nibelung and a fix of the Hoop Race in Valhalla, not to mention a takeof on the Cocktail Party and what seemed to be an allusion to F. Scott Fitxgerald. Let it suffice to say it was confusing...
...part of a suspected move toward Godliness, next to which reporters claim, is Cleanliness, City officials are sponsoring a vast campaign to clean Cambridge's ears, paint Cambridge's cheek, and fix Cambridge's broken nose. Campaign heads expect the College to participate in the ears division...
Second on the double bill is "Basketball Fix" with John Ireland, the straight story of a college basketball player in the clutch of gamblers. Unfortunately the story is all too true, but the athlete is played by such a naive teenager that the movie loses touch with reality...
When a final fix by the astronomers placed the center in Farmer Carl Daymen Snider's cornfield, well-wishers came from all directions. Snider, a lean, tanned 33-year-old son of the soil, took it calmly: "I ain't overly worked up about it." said he. When he was asked if his family would pose before a camera, he said: "The woman may take the shotgun...
...this is because University statutes fix the start of the Christmas vacation and the beginning of the Spring Term in such a way that the crucial time between them varies with the calendar...