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Nowadays students themselves comprise only from 10 to 30 percent of the UT's audience, but the atmosphere is still heavily intellectual. "We're in the peculiar spot," Sumner says, "of having about half our audience wanting us to be an "art house" with single features, but with the other...
"The sight of this handsome and practical hand," says West, "came as a revelation . . . [and I] thought how wonderful it would be if people wrote like that nowadays." Last week, to help people write like that, West published a small history of calligraphy (Written by Hand; Allen & Unwin; 7s.3d.), with...
What is the leading cause of alcoholism nowadays? Not the sordid living conditions that once led to "Gin Lane," say the editors of the British Medical Journal, but hangovers of old-fashioned Puritanism. "In Shakespeare's time," editorializes the Journal, "there were Puritans who condemned drinking out-and-out...
Bulky and slow-moving, Jouhaux, anarchist turned respectable, at 72 sits nowadays at official functions fourth from the President of France. Last week the Grand Old Man of European Labor was awarded the 1951 Nobel Peace Prize ($32,400). In selecting its man of 1951, Norway's Nobel committee...
Not all the fighting between the freshmen and sophomores is so disorganized and spontaneous, however. The annual "canespree" in October is a traditional event. The name descended from ancient times, and has since lost most of its meaning, but it refers to a three-foot cane that one of the...