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Hannah added that the "hard and unpleasant" facts of the draft situation are a spur to the Defense Department, to find better ways of using the country's military manpower. Studies are under way toward this end, he said...
...tutorial revisions. Not the compulsion is a favored academic tool, but no matter how successful the revisions might be, only regular participation in the program will convince the reluctant student of tutorial's value. Since tutorial is worth having at Harvard, two basic improvements follow: There must be some spur to prepare the assignments and attend the sessions, and there must be some incentive to take an active part in the proceedings...
...Construction of a theatre," he added, "should be a spur to dramatic activity at Harvard, and this should be an integral part of undergraduate life. The necessity for local dramatic activity is especially acute since the demise of the Brattle Theatre last fall...
With enough action to make a dozen westerns, Naked Spur should entertain most everybody. The plot is no worse than any of its type. But it is James Stewart's long-legged form and drawling voice that lift the film just over the mediocre western class...
Filmed with Colorado's Rocky Mountains, as a back-drop, Naked Spur recounts the trials of a Kansas rancher, Stewart, who pursues a desperate killer, Robert, Ryan, for the price on his head. After capturing the killer, he soon liquidates him (not without reason) and then departs with Janet Leigh for California, his pockets empty. All this intends to point up the moral that Stewart should never have tried to get a pecuniary reward in the first place...