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...PLOT AND COUNTERPLOT IN CENTRAL EUROPE-M. W. Fodor-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Marcel Fodor, 47-year-old Hungarian, for many years Central European correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, the New York Evening Post, takes a correspondent's-eye-view of the Danube and Balkan countries, pounces on numerous unknown and little-known facts...
Like "Artists and Models," Crosby's new picture is burdened with a plot that takes a brave man to follow. A number of people are given $5,000 apiece and the one who can double it in a month is to receive a million more. The plot which made "If I Had A Million" extremely good entertainment many years ago falls down here partly because of the niggardly sum that is to be invested, and partly because of the uninteresting people who are to invest it. Crosby sings songs that we vaguely remember hearing a few months ago, and wins...
...student is forced to go exactly 67 inches out of his way, and his circuitous routs takes him three seconds longer. Going to three meals a day for 240 days, thus making a total of 4,320 trips around the plot in a college year he must walk four miles, 3000 feet...
From the corner curb to the stairway via Rout 1, the student takes 17 full seconds. But, employing the illegal Routue 2, he does it in 10 flat. Seven seconds, then, are wasted because of the grass plot, an architectural Frankenstein! And even if the illicit route is taken, a hedge and a tree block speedy entrance to class...
Will he walk around the grass plot as a decent citizen should, upholding his moral fortitude, but flunking, or will he take the criminal short cut, reaching the exam just in time? A question indeed, but should he flunk, Harvard architecture will have claimed another victim