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Returning to its fast break pattern of offense for the first time since early in the season, Columbia took an early lead and was never headed, despite some anxious moments. Two Crimson starters, guard Bill Dennis and center Dick Lionette, kept the varsity in contention until the fourth quarter, when the Lions built up an insurmountable 21 point lead...
Back in 1940, Lewenthal persuaded Grant Wood to translate his famed Midnight Ride of Paul Revere into a fabric pattern-but no manufacturer would buy it. Last year Lewenthal tried again, and got Manhattan's huge Riverdale fabric company to print not only Midnight Ride but designs by seven other painters too. Four are reproduced on the opposite page...
...Beverly Dennis); a muleskinning crack shot (Lenore Lonergan); an Italian immigrant (Renata Vanni) with a nine-year-old boy. In the tradition of Frank Capra, who supplied the story for Scripter Charles Schnee, Westward the Women deploys its ample stock company and wealth of incident in a highly artificial pattern designed for a maximum of humor, pathos, action and romance. The result carries little conviction, either historical or human, but it makes a slick piece of entertainment...
...disciplined book of the five. If it lacks the cameo charm of The World of Washington Irving, it also avoids the saccharine traces of The Flowering of New England. Moreover, the closer Brooks gets to the present, the more aroused he becomes. The book follows his by now familiar pattern. Hopping blithely from region to region, and painting bold frescoes of their literary manners, it brings scores of writers to life in sharp, sympathetic vignettes. Each chapter is richly coated with anecdote and local color; in fact, the book has more of the quality of storytelling than of toughly analytical...
...Swift & Friends. The best thing about the book is its lack of pretentiousness: Jensen has avoided high-flown speculations about the metaphysics and poetry of flight, has sensibly followed a straight chronological pattern. His opening section mixes solid historical accounts of the infancy of flying with a John Dos Passes dithyramble (from The Big Money) on the Wright brothers, a pleasantly batty story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on an "air jungle" high over Britain, and a tale about Tom Swift taking" his girl up, which opens with the classic line: "Oh, Tom, is it really safe...