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Though little-known in the U.S., François Mauriac ranks as one of France's half-dozen best living novelists. The publishing house of Holt is currently engaged in bringing out a uniform U.S. edition of all his works,* confident that he will shortly be as highly regarded in the U.S. as in his home country. But the forbidding theme of his novels may scare off many U.S. readers: Mauriac dwells in the gloomy fogs and disasters of moral corruption and puts a bleak emphasis on the wages...
...thing started off with a deceptive air of tranquillity and good fellowship. Three hundred German writers from all zones, plus a half-dozen from abroad, gathered (for the first time since war's end) in Berlin. The Russians, though they sponsored the affair, took it easy-at first...
...half-dozen Engineers who beat Harvard's first man, Huna Rosenfeld in that meet, four will be out on the starting line this afternoon: Renze, Noss, Jablonski and Knopp. Holy Cross is considered to be considerably less potent, with O'Leary, second in that same five-team meet last year, the only threat. The Varsity will run 41/4 miles today, the Freshman...
Kenneth T. Bainbridge, professor of Physics, returned to Cambridge and his teaching chores yesterday, after a visit to an international conference of chemists in Belgium. A half-dozen nations were represented at the conclave, which, Bainbridge stated, was "purely scientific...
Most people can see the oomph, but not much else. Those who think they see more than that rank Miro among the top half-dozen living painters. The New York Sun's Critic Henry McBride-a longtime Miro enthusiast-last week said that Miro now "occupies the position of favorite with those-connoisseurs who insist that they really are connoisseurs." But, he conceded, "those somewhat stuffy people who do not respond to abstract art will fear that the connoisseurs are trying to put something over on them, and they will resent...