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This filmed and televised account of the war in Europe as Eisenhower saw it is the first public showing of thousands of feet of film shot on the battlefronts of World War II by combat and civilian cameramen and hitherto withheld for security reasons. It will be presented in 26 two-reel episodes of 20 minutes each...
...like all constitutions, it can be adjusted in the light of experience. And it has a number of ambitious goals that are certainly worth aiming at. As the Council group says, the elective system should stimulate interest in Union business, and give future Committees the class support that has hitherto been lacking. The constitution also gives the freshmen two representatives on the Student Council, which is a right they have been denied...
...utmost difficulty in evoking a clear picture of feminine psychology in his writing. Elias' biography shows in part why. When he first became interested in girls, the baker's daughter cordially offered "to show him the mysteries which he had hitherto dared only to dream about." At another point, when he was worried about his sexual adequacy, a college girl enticed him into intimate relations. In the depths of his despair and humiliation women suddenly appeared from nowhere-they were his for the asking, and no one he had the courage to approach seems to have refused...
...number drowned in the Kiangya sinking was about 2,750. Last month another (unidentified) Chinese vessel, evacuating troops from Manchuria, went down with 6,000 aboard. Among the greatest maritime disasters hitherto recorded: the Titanic (1912), which went down with 1,517; the Lusitania (1915) with 1,198; the General Slocum (1904) with...
Throughout the game Kirkland blocking and tackling was vastly more effective than Eliot's; the latter relied for defense on a hitherto unused 4-4-2-1 lineup with an over-and-under-shifting line, and for offense on Jim Rossiter who carried the ball on over 75 percent of the offensive plays...