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...Yale announced the end of all these breezy customs. A university committee (nine facultyites, six undergraduates) decided it was all too much strain: too many fights, too many girls dumped in the Housatonic, too many truckloads (twelve in 1949) of beer cans and other litter to be hauled away afterward. One special cause of complaint: Yalemen and their dates had taken to filling water pistols with beer, discharging them at elderly ladies on Derby street corners...
...tricks Di Salle learned in Toledo work well in Washington. He has the staying power of a stevedore ("I don't quit easy") and a temperament as smooth as Devonshire cream. He rents a two-room apartment-but is rarely there except to sleep (making his own bed afterward) or to fry an occasional egg. By 8 o'clock, he pops into his simple office in Tempo E and opens his door to all comers. After a day of interviews, mobilization meetings and sessions on Capitol Hill, he goes back to work until 1 or 2 a.m. most...
...Murder? One midnight soon afterward, the doctor, the lawyer and eight witnesses went into a snow-covered country cemetery to dig up the woman's body. The young doctor's autopsy, performed in a nearby shed, proved to the court that death had been caused by drowning and not by poison. The lawyer's client was acquitted. "All at once," says Dr. Gradwohl now, "it struck me with great force how much could depend on the proper scientific inquiry into the cause of sudden death." Last week, Dr. Gradwohl made the same point in Chicago...
...Refugee's Question. Hero Antolin was never a revolutionary. He had worked in a bank, aiming for a decent and simple life. Then he had fought for the Loyalists. Afterward, when he fled to England, Antolin left a wife and three children. The best he could do in London was to become a waiter, send occasional small amounts to his family and learn to be at ease in a new country. He admired English life and especially English regard for individual liberty. He became a British subject, found himself an English girl. But like many a refugee, he thought...
...Afterward, Capone was moved to Atlanta and Alcatraz penitentiaries, where he served 7½ years...