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Housman's emotions were not only split between the great and the puerile; their range was remarkably narrow and primitive. His natural meter was quite as primitive-chiefly ballad stanzas (with some beautiful original variants on them), and the four-beat couplets which are the basic pulse of English poetry. But his subtle variety and mastery of tone, developed upon those few simple emotions and within that narrow range of key, are as remarkable as anything short of Mozart's minuets. Only the greatest poets had a better musical ear, a subtler handling of meter...
...again founder on the rocks of Pakistan, but Congress Leader Jawaharlal Nehru has already made some concessions to the Moslem League. He offered them "95% Pakistan"-Moslem provincial self-government in all matters except foreign affairs and defense, or a future plebiscite to determine whether some Moslem areas shall split from India and form a separate state...
...Poland the split between the Communist-Socialist groups and shrewd Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party was deepening. Security Police raids on Peasant Party headquarters were reported last week. If efforts to smash the Mikolajczyk forces failed, then the Communist-Socialist groups would fight for a late fall election, when the popularity of the Polish Peasant Party, sure winner of an election now, might have waned...
Harvard salvaged some small solace by now beating out the 10-point edge that the bookies had assigned to State. Thousands of plungers went berserk when Huston scored what might have been the money-winning tally just a split second after the final whistle blew. Crimson loyalty thereby paid off by the narrowest of margins...
...Dirt for Authors. He pays publishers 30? a copy to lease a book's plates, has the book printed himself. He guarantees publishers minimum royalties of $100,000, often pays much more. Example: he paid Publisher Appleton-Century about $150,000 for Arch of Triumph. The publisher split this fee with Author Erich Maria Remarque, just as all B.O.M.C. royalties are split with authors...