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Sleight of Hand. The princes, sparked by Hanwant Singh, seemed determined to make the election not only history's largest and longest, but its liveliest. Hanwant Singh, a polo player and amateur magician whose childhood dreams were realized a year ago when 600 London magicians asked him over to do some tricks for them, was proving himself a skilled political prestidigitator as well. Standing for both the national Parliament and the local Rajasthan state assembly, Hanwant Singh last week wrapped on his red-and-orange turban, sprayed himself generously with an oriental attar called Queen of the Night...
Ilona Karmel has written the longest piece, another installment of her reminiscences of Europe, which are soon to be published as a novel called "Cobbler's Paradise." In this one, we find little Stephania in a hospital in some unspecified part of Scandinavia, shooting the breeze with her Scandinavian comrades and reminiscing over the death of her father at the hands of the Nazis. There are two strands running through the chapter--a rather objectivized analysis of the Jewish conception of death, and a highly subjective narration of the guilt feelings which generally accompany the premature death of a close...
Among the teams who wound up their 1951 schedules last week: Princeton, with triple-threat Halfback Dick Kazmaier out of action for half the game with a slight concussion, over Dartmouth, 13-0, for the Tigers' second straight undefeated season, second straight Ivy League title, 23rd straight victory, longest major streak in the nation; Michigan State, the nation's No. 2, over Colorado, 45-7, for the Spartans' 15th straight, and first undefeated season since 1913; Harvard and Yale, in a satisfactory...
...House hockey season, which started practice this week, will be the longest over, Adolph W. Samborski '25, Director of Intramural Athletics, revealed yesterday...
These characters take a long time getting to predictable ends. Labor Leader Norris finds peace of a sort on the picket line, Political Boss Lockwood marries a rich girl who gives him a rough time, and Intellectual Levin wallows through one of the longest nervous breakdowns in literary history...