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Lewis' own idea about the sex life of the Harvard undergraduate is that too often he sets out in quest of amorous adventures according "to some preconceived hard-and-fast theory, too frequently grounded on the exaggerations and distortions of other undergraduates boasting in bull sessions."
The recent mild attack for a course on marriage at Harvard seems to me to expose one of the weaknesses of contemporary college education: students seem unable to known how to learn something if there is no course on the subject. If one has any deep desire to get a...
Most exciting season in Frank Black's career was 1936-37. With the Carnation Milk program to direct in Chicago Monday nights and the Magic Key in Manhattan Sundays, he commuted by air between the two cities for 58 weeks. To give air travel its due, he never missed...
One day last week, with wheels down, another Frobisher dropped down on roomy Croydon. Its legs collapsed, and it slid ignominiously to a stop on its belly. This time the passengers, 21 of them, were plain scared, thoroughly shaken up. Imperial imperturbably grounded the 234-mile-an-hour ships to...
Desperate, the José Luis Diez deliberately rammed the Jupiter and disabled her. The Loyalist destroyer then floundered toward the shore and grounded 100 yards from Catalan Bay. The Vanoc and Basque moved between the Jose Luis Diez and her Rebel attackers, played searchlights on the scene and began rescues...