Word: admitting
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Under a program adopted by the Interfraternity Council, uniformed police officers at the doors of fraternity houses will admit only Dartmouth men bearing identification cards and guests with invitations signed by the house presidents...
...move is designed to eliminate the outsiders who "just come" for the parties and other activities. By taking the discretion of whether to admit crashers or not out of the hands of individual members of the fraternities and putting it with policemen hired by the I.F.C., the Council hopes to eliminate the pressure on members to admit crashers...
Outside Chance. The New York Daily News's Columnist John O'Donnell, a Taftman, looked down his nose at Eisenhower's campaign, quoted an unidentified Ike informant: "This New Hampshire play for Eisenhower has turned out sour and that we'll admit." James ("Scotty") Reston of the New York ("We Like Ike") Times was impressed by Taft's "aggressive campaign." He found it more effective than the politicking in behalf of the absent Eisenhower. Wrote Reston: ". . . What does Taft have that Ike doesn't have? The answer seems to be: 'Nothing...
Director Gruskin had to admit that he was "pleasantly surprised" by the number of nudes his artists had done, even though he knew that their work would be a bit hard to market. "Nudes," says he, "have never sold too well. A lot of museums are leary of them because their trustees are conservative businessmen. Even bars have been giving them up for mirrors. One nude we displayed in a bar had to be taken down because the drinkers objected." Abstractions don't raise the same problem...
Weil, who once tried to hire Chicago's Philosopher Mortimer Adler (TIME, March 17) as a Vice President in Charge of Thinking, thought that "retailing is a backward and disorganized industry." He would also admit that Macy's had lost ground, was not growing in Manhattan as it had done in the '20s. He prophesied: "It will do so again in the '50s. If it doesn't, I will have been a failure...