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NINE out of ten of our readers get TIME in the mail, but reader No. 10 picks it up at the newsstand. Our newsstand sales naturally vary with the temper of the news, as well as the seasons. Some complicated events draw readers to us, who want to have it all spelled out in one comprehensive story...
FERNAND BERNOULLI Swiss Ambassador to Mexico Mexico City > Let Reader Bernoulli check his address book. President and Mine. Houphouet-Boigny own a villa in Gstaad, Switzerland, and their daughter attends school there...
...reader regards the Class Marshal elections as mere popularity contests, he should take note of a statistical study made in 1954 on the percentage of distribution among various rank list groups of undergraduates and selected student and alumni groups. The two athletic organizations studied, the crews and varsity football, placed nobody in Group I--but neither did the CRIMSON nor the Student Council. The athletes had a smaller percentage of their students in Group II, but they had essentially the same percentage displacement (approximately 75 per cent) in Groups III, IV, and V, as did the others, including the Corporation...
Thus last week, an irate Tribune reader named John Fitzgerald Kennedy served public notice that he no longer wanted the Trib-not even for free. Around the corner from the White House, at the Card and Gift Town Shop, Newsdealer Bernard Gorlen had already got the word. The White House called to cancel its subscription to the 23 daily and 13 Sunday Tribunes that Gorlen has been delivering since Inauguration Day. What was bothering the President, Gorlen wondered. For the rest of the week, all he had to do was to read the papers-any paper-to find...
...blackmail them on a statutory rape charge, and the novel is soon awash with sex and violence. The ancient Greeks knew the value of restraint; Oedipus' crime was the more horrible because it was the only one in the play. Swarthout produces so many horrors he satiates the reader. Nobody will be fooled by pseudo-Greek trappings. "This body was as stately," writes Swarthout, preparing for a seduction scene, "as classic in its shaft of rib and hip and thigh as a column of Ionic order, the lavish capitals of the breasts as perfect, the belly ornate...