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Colonist Barr thinks the time is ripe for a new school, both because of the "shocking" shortage and because "I'm getting old." (He is 49.) Will there be still more Barr-built colleges on the St. John's pattern? "I'd like to think this is not the last. But somebody else will have to start the next...
...ended an unconscionably long time later, with the Nazis popping buzz-bombs into London, and Adelaide, at the ripe age of 80, still domiciled in Britannia Mews. British Novelist Margery Sharp (The Nutmeg Tree, Cluny Brown, etc.) must have written this one on the back of a series of old paper bags. Disjointed, rambling and generally vacuous, the story limps from coincidence to coincidence, casually adopting or deserting characters along the way, ending in a burst of good, old-fashioned bathos. Novelist Sharp, who usually manages to be witty, or at least catty, can offer here only a few naughty...
...lank, soft-spoken Californian named Truman Bailey could take the commission's bows. Back in 1942 he had found that the only decent Peruvian artifacts were buried in museums. Most stores sold shoddy, cast silverware and tritely patterned blankets. Bailey, who had acquired a ripe background digging the best teakwood and tapa cloth out of Java and Oceania, knew exactly what to do: hit out for the sources of pre-Columbian handicrafts and discover the lost techniques...
Charges that medical and health arrangements on the Vance had been inadequate and slipshod indicated that conditions might have been ripe for an outbreak in the ship's nursery. But Army investigators reported that, despite the clearance at Le Havre, some of the babies were suffering from malnutrition when they were brought aboard ship. Said the investigators: "The outbreak . . . was due to a filterable virus and spread through contact infection...
...situation was most acute in the Pacific. Bases on former Jap-mandated islands, in the Philippines, Ryukyus and Aleutians, were the fruit of great and costly amphibious campaigns. The danger was that this fruit would be rotten before it was ripe...