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...Tenley Albright, world's champion figure skater and one of the U.S.'s few sure bets for a first place, tripped over a hole in the ice and gashed her leg. But the pretty blonde premedical student, who took up skating to offset the effects of childhood polio, insisted she would be ready for competition. Her physician father, who flew in from the U.S., agreed. Said Tenley: "I'll skate even if the leg is broken...
...University Printing Office is making substantial savings this year by printing many of the mid-year exams by photo-offset rather than letter press, Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar, said yesterday. All the exams which have "clean copy" when handed to the printer are reproduced photographically, instead of setting them up in type and printing them on the familiar small, manila sheets, he explained...
...heirs of Turkey's late great Kemal Ataturk-Republicans and Democrats alike-have maintained a tacit agreement to stick by their leader's founding dictum: in modern Turkey "state and religion must be separate." Then dapper, driving Premier Adnan Menderes, trying to whip up popular support to offset rising big-city discontent with his extravagant inflationary policies (TIME, Oct. 24), took off on a speech-making swing through his Anatolian farm-country strongholds. At Konya, in the wheat-growing heart of what Istanbul calls the Koran belt, he blurted out the most direct pitch yet for the prayer...
...very poor first quarter in which the varsity trailed 14 to 2 at one point and inaccurate shooting were the decisive factors in the loss to Bowdoin. Phil Haughey's 17 points, Canty's 14, and Dick Hurley's 11 were not enough to offset an overall field goal accuracy of only 28 per cent and an inadequate 61 per cent on free throws...
This is the story the film tells competently. At times, however, the celluloid seems to have been coated with whitewash as well as WarnerColor-a treatment that damages Billy as well as the story. Billy's virtues (courage and sincerity) were set off, as well as offset, by his vices (fanaticism and tactlessness). In the part as it is written, Gary Cooper plays the flamboyant Billy for a sort of militant old maid, and his historic cry for justice for the air service sometimes seems about as exciting as an old maid's protest that the neighbor...