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...different was Talavera Margaret, the wire-haired foxterrier bitch whom Reginald M. Lewis offered as his champion! She was a sturdy study in angles put together with a T-square. Everything indicated that her vitals were made of steel and rubber; her tail, when touched, would snap upward as crisply as a stick of whalebone. Her frisky good-nature was that of a high-pressure debutante; in a day when such ardent and consciously winsome charm is highly prized in drawing rooms, it cannot fail to have its value in the ring of a dog show; Talavera Margaret was judged...
...snap course", target of not a little opprobrium in educational magazines and dean's offices, has at last come into its own. Naming thus a new kind of course that will be part of the reorganized Columbia curriculum, an action vaguely suggestive of giving a dog a bad name, Dean Herbert E. Hawkes of the college announced at a dinner of Columbia alumni that in his judgement "snap courses serve an excellent purpose." Such a statement, it would seem, would have few farther flung associations than that with the cultivated tastes of the student vagabond of Harvard. But closer examination...
...Columbia "snap courses" will take the form of lectures, at which there will be no academic requirement other than punctiliousness in attendance. Half credit only is given for such a course, but in the Columbia system of rating courses this will make the "snap course" on a par with the laboratory course. A man will be permitted "to include one, or possibly two such courses in his program...
COQUETTE?The snap of heart strings in a flirt's tragic battle against village prejudice. Helen Hayes. (TIME...
...Mexican frijoles or Armenian dolmas. The Story: Mrs. Ruth A. Jeremiah Gottfried has assembled in staccato sentences 128 recipes: "The booty that one casual observer in foreign kitchens found practical to bring home and too tempting to leave behind." Each recipe has a catch-eye head- ing?some with snap. Examples: "Pilaf: An Extinct Soup"; "Carme-leis: Swoons in Cream"; "Silde-boller: Hamburger with Fins." Eyes which have been caught but perhaps frightened by pilaf, carme-leis and sildeboller are then directed to a consoling, italicized reassurance: The actual instructions for preparing each dish "... are so constructed that...