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...Yardlings picked up two runs in the first and eighth innings and scored single counters in the fifth and ninth frames. The last run came after MacDonald opened the inning with the longest hit of the day, a triple. He scored on winning pitcher Bill Chauncey's fly to right...
Last Monday night the Council heard and passed on the longest report in its history. The report "attempts to find out what G.E. attempts to do, how it does it, and what success G.E. has achieved." Chances are that report, based on the reaction of students, section men, and instructors to the G.E. program, will be considered whenever an important change in the program is considered...
Sentimental Texas. None of this is so remarkable as the fact that Author Cooper's book is to be published at all. Its 2,870 pages (840,000 words) will make it the longest U.S. novel in many a year. It will have to be brought out in two volumes at about $10. Moreover, it is a first novel, though Cooper wrote and destroyed another one a quarter-century ago when a literary agent said it was no good. Cooper knew that the odds were much against his finding a publisher. He sent Houghton Mifflin an apologetic note: "Your...
...long on Shavian talk about sex, marriage, war & peace, science, religion, literature, politics and man's fate. Before it was tried by Laughton and the other talented members of the cast (Charles Boyer, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Agnes Moorehead), Don Juan had never had a major U.S. production. "The longest theatrical aside in the history of the drama," it was regarded as fitter for the library than the stage. Shaw himself conceded that it would never be successfully played because "they . . . will think it nothing but a pack of words...
...although of a more limited appeal. These include World Council of Churches, which has work camps in Japan and Assam (at an estimated cost of $1500) in addition to European camps, and the Congregational Christian Service Committee, and the Presbyterian Work Camps, both working through the World Council. The longest work camp, which lasts three months, is sponsored by the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Salaries in this case cover housing and living expenses...