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...recent years, it had seemed to Harvard football players that they were awash in seas of indifference. Pre-game rallies, a kind of Nürnberg spectacle on many campuses, usually proved duds at Harvard. Only once a year did the mask of indifference drop-the weekend that Harvard met Yale. Then past Crimson heroes, old and out-of-shape, revisited Cambridge to talk do-or-die. This year, Harvard had imported Art Valpey (formerly one of Fritz Crisler's aides at Michigan), and the old order changed...
...undamaged condition of many of the ships (some of them could get up steam and float properly). There was less to be elated about three weeks later after Test Baker (the underwater explosion). To old salts, the spectacle of the Radiological Monitors, "decked out in galoshes, gloves, coveralls, and mask . . . creeping along the passages . . . waving a magic black box," was unnautical and absurd. When told by one of the monitors that the deck he was standing on was hotter than hell, the Navyman whistled up his scrubmen. They scrubbed and scrubbed, Navy-way -but still the Geiger counters sang...
...never considered "playing Medea naked from the waist up (as Euripides intended)" [TIME, Oct. 25], but I wish that you had given us your source of information as to Euripides' intentions. Since his Medea was played by a husky male whose head was encased in the huge mask-apparatus, whose stature was increased by the kothornos, and whose hieratic vestments excluded any suggestion or realism, it is difficult to imagine-except in terms of Salvador Dali-the effect which you suggest...
...anyone could find Washington-the-man behind the cold marble mask of the historical figure, it was Douglas Freeman. Next week, with the first two volumes off the press (there are four more to come, the last in 1952), readers can get started on what is certain to be the best researched life of Washington yet written...
...plane not been brought down quickly to a lower altitude, the passengers would soon have felt wobbly, slightly drunk, and would have lost consciousness in a few minutes. At 20,000 feet the pressure can be restored merely by diving, but at 40,000 feet an oxygen mask is needed. Above 52,000 feet, a new problem comes...