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Last year's Brown match was easy, and there is no reason to believe that it will be any different this time. If the Bruins, led by epeeman Amidon, give the weak Crimson sabre team too much trouble, Peroy may shift Johnson or another foil man to the sabre for the next match...
...very narrow and limited experience with College work. As a result many men pick their field on hunches instead of experience. They become round pegs in square holes, and even if they discover it before it is too late (say by the beginning of Junior year) the shift to another field is apt to be disruptive and time-wasting...
Last week, on a site next to Chicago's Municipal Airport, workmen broke ground for the new Johnson & Johnson assembly plant. Under terms of its Army contract, the company will: 1) equip its factory to turn out 100,000 masks a month (300,000 on a three-shift, 24-hour basis); 2) make 10,000 masks during 1940; 3) at year's end turn over equipment and gas masks to the Army for the sum of $341,714. By Aug. 1 Johnson & Johnson expected the first masks to come rolling off the assembly line...
Certain artists can shift from palette to lithographer's stone without varying either the quality or the type of work which they usually produce. Take Matisse, for example. His art is primarily decorative and is intended to soothe and placate rather than incite the spectator. Matisse relies mainly upon the sensitivity of his line and the balanced harmony of his color to attain this end; but strangely enough, when he leaves the field of color and portrays a subject through the print medium, his result is the same, namely a rather abstract picture which is neither more nor less than...
LOVE IN THE SUN-Leo Walmsley- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A girl named Dain, and "I," a young man, unmarried, without money, in love, take a shack and shift for themselves on the Cornish coast. The young man writes books, from which he gets too little money; the young woman works very hard and is very "gallant." The arduous simplicities of their living and their small adventures are described in great detail; they have a baby; they are very happy indeed. Warm readers will find the tale disarming; cool readers may wonder whether love so nearly cloudless is interesting enough...