Calhoun School - Ink Pot Yearbook (New York, NY)

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in k p o t the broken song By Sonia DougherTy THE BROKEN SONG is a very unusual sTory laid in Russia during The Time oT The Revolufion. The Oblanofis are a very inTeresTing Tamily, and Their advenTures and The diTTerenT people They meeT .while moving Trom place To place To escape The RevoIuTion make a very enTerTaining book. There is an exciTing climax and Tinal happiness Tor all. Miss DougherTy's THE BROKEN SONG holds The reader's inTeresT Trom beginning To end. NATALIE SILVER. '42. vein of iron By Ellen Glasgow VEIN OF IRON is The sTory oT The FincasTles Tor Three generaTions-grandmoTher, John and Mary Evelyn, and Their daughTer Ada, who brings us up To modern Times. Ada has The same spiriT oT courage in meeTing The harshness of The TwenTieTh cenTury ThaT her greaT-greaT-grandmoTher had when facing capTiviTy aT The hands oT The Indians. All Through The book runs The VEIN OF IRON, forTiTude, sTrengTh, a will To live ThaT holds generaTions TogeTher. LEE EITINGON, '38. lost horizon By James l-'lilTon L OST I-IORIZON is The Thrilling and amazing sTory of Three men and a woman missionary abducTed by plane Trom India To a TibeTan lamasary. The principle oT The Lamas is moderaTion in all Things, and Through mocIeraTion They achieve an incredibly long life, The head lama being cenTuries old. To me iT is noT The sTory buT The philosophy and The inTiniTe wisdom ThaT make The book so precious. LEE EITINGON, '38, to the mountain By Bradford SmiTh WITHIN This Tender sTory is The drama oT modern Japan-The sTruggle beTween The old and The new, beTween ancienT, OrienTal TradiTion and wesTern innovaTion, beTween The lovely grace of a kniqhTIy culTure and The spiriT oT war and conquesT, beTween ChrisTianiTy and ShinTaism. IT is a novel of beauTy and signihcanceg iT broadens undersTanding. AT The cenTer oT The sTory is The ill-sTarred love of Two charming persons-Shigeo, a quieT, sensiTive sTudenT, son of a rich and rakish merchanT, and genTle Kimi, rescued Trom a house in The Yoshiwara To which her poverTy-sTricken parenTs sold her aT TiTTeen. LiTe seems To Torbid Them happiness eiTher TogeTher or aparT. IT TogeTher They dishonor The old TradiTion, Tor They are Tor- bidden To marry, yeT They love each oTher Too well To parT. They Tind Their own TranscendenT soluTion. To The delighT of The narraTive and The greaT range of living characTers, are added in every page, impressions of Tokyo Today, so vivid They have all The illusion oT realiTy, so unusual ThaT They have The TascinaTion of a newly-discovered counTry: such varied scenes as: Kimi's Tamily, six oT Them, living in a Tiny room, sleeping under rags, wiTh only a Ii++le rice Trom The governmenT-dole, noT suTTicienT To provide one meal a clay: The Tamily life of The rich oil merchanT-a business man's banqueT, a sTag parTy wiTh geishas To enTerTain-a baThing beach as crowded as Chicago's: The unTorTunaTe women in The Yoshiwara, described wiTh resTrainT and digniTyg The deparTure and reTurn of soldiers from The Manchurian war-insTances oT heroism-The war propaganda: The crowded uni- versiTy-sTudenTs sTriking and bossing Their Teachers-communisT sTudenTs TorTured inTo confession- sTudenTs picnicking and ashamed oT Their TrighT aT a liTTle earThquake: young people so paTienT. quieT, and conTrolled we almosT believe The Japanese can never be so violenT-and Then an oTIicer pushes a lighTed cigareTTe in a suspecT's nose. Bradford SmiTh's pen is uniquely TiTTed To TranslaTe To us in TicTion The psychology oT The Japanese -a Task requiring knowledge, sympaThy, peneTraTion. Even more remarkable Than his insighT is The depTh oT Teeling wiTh which he Touches and moves The reader in The Tragic problem oT Kimi and Shigeo. Rl-IODA MINTZ, '37. TiTTy-Tour

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ink pot the snowfall JUVENILE PRIZE All day long The snow Tell lighTIy Like some fairy child so sprighTly Clad The earfh in glisfening whiTe Breaking The darkness of The nighT. When aT lasf The moon came ouT. Turned her shiny face abouf, She saw no dull and barren land BuT silvery whife a fairy sfrand. From mansion down To hovel whiTe The snow had Transformed The nighf Sparkling as a Thousand iewels Wifh reflecTions in icy pools. Sleigh bells ring across The snow As oTf The dashing horses go Tingling wiTh our spiriTs high Down The counTry road we fly. Cold hearTy days like These WiTh a keen and blusTery breeze Blowing long from ouT The wesT Are The days I like The besf. RUTH MICHAELS, Fiffh Grade. the ghost of the sizzling bomb ASTRANGE and suspicious box, covered wiTh holes, lay on The windowsill aT The end of The hall. A maid happened To pass by ancl, seeing The hole, ThoughT iT was a bomb. She ran downsfairs and Told The house-deTecTive. The house-deTecTive called his assisTanT, who called The clerk, who followed aTTer calling The bell-boy. They ran upsTairs and saw aT The end of The hall The bomb .They heard a soff scraTch, To Them The sizzling bombl Suddenly, ouT of one of The holes popped a head dime. buf disTincT as big as a The deTecTive gave a yelp, his assisTanT ran down The sTairs Tasfer Than a lack-rabbiT bulleTg The maid TainTed complefely. The bell-boy did likewise, and as far as The clerk, doesn'T know whaf happened. A maid sfepped ouT of The room To ask abouT The commoTion. The deTecTive yelled Ghosf of The Sizzling Bomb! The Ghosi' of The Sizzling Bomb! and moTioned Toward Th The box had a posTmark on iT and, sTrange To say, if was addressed To This maid. She was puzzled. IT is from my sisTer, she ThoughT. She lisTened: The sizzling was scraTching, The ghosT was a Tiny head. OT course. said The maid, TurTIes from my sisTer's TurTle farm. IRMA NEWMAN, SixTh Grade. Tiffy-six bookland When everyThing is wrong and you don'T know whaT To do, You'll find ThaT almosT any book is an open door To you: Wifh ROBIN HOOD AND HIS MERRY MEN we'II spend a day or Two Or journey To TREASURE ISLAND, you'd like ThaT, wouldn'T you? We can follow IiT+le Alice righf Through Wonderland Or ioin up wiTh TOM SAWYER, and his daring piraTe band. l'm sure ThaT HElDl'd greef you in her mounTain home so highl And ThaT Those well loved LITTLE WOMEN will make you laugh and cry. When you've Traveled Through These books and made so many Triends, You'll find ThaT Book-land's loys never, never end. scared by a well, he sTill aT her. The e windowsill. RUTH MICHAELS, Fiffh Grade.