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...Santa Fe Trail" would probably pull a flat E out of History 5, but better men than Errol Flynn have hit the bottom in that course. Luckily, the film is no term paper on Bloody Kansas, but an interesting and frequently exciting study of a Man with an Idea, John Brown. Raymond Massey, lately of Illinois, resurrects the fire-eating disciple of Jehovah and the Boston Abolitionists with superb artistry. And, as is usual with any experienced actor, Mr. Massey pilfers the picture from such amiable hams as Errol Flynn and Ronald Regan. Of course, John Brown is the villain...
...Sophomore Don MacKinnon taking a pair of thirds. Dick Pfister won the shot put, and John Shattuck was third. Crimson sprinters Charley Smith and Doug Pirnie were slow in getting off their marks in the 60-yard dash and did not do as well as expected. Pirnie managed to pull up to second at the finish, but Smith had too much of a handicap from the start to get in the money...
...with the help of a phenomenon called the Doppler effect: when a source of light approaches earth, its spectrum lines are shifted to the right, and when it is receding they are shifted to the left. At times when Mars is fast approaching or retreating, the Doppler effect should pull the Martian vapor lines away from the earth lines enough to make them visible in Dr. Adams' delicate instrument. But they failed to appear...
...such a cinch, the British prepared to press for Bengasi, in hope of catching the other half of Graziani's ragged army. Patrols worked along the coast and also cut straight across the hump (see map). With luck, General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell and his merry men might pull off the most surprising total victory in this war of many surprises...
...classify the Spanish Loyalists as refugees so that they are ineligible for even temporary haven is a heartless response to the appeal of those first fighters against fascism who now are ringed by Franco, Hitler, and Mussolini. No All American team sparked by Senator Reynolds should be permitted to pull in the welcome must of Ellis Island. Not even the selfish arguments for walking out Europe's outcasts bold good. In a world of destruction and despair the United States since its founding has been humanity's Shangri-la. There is still no valid cause for bolting shut its golden...