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...course not all the dealing goes on in that fashion. But W. C. Burriss Young '55, acting dean of freshmen and leader of the all-night sessions, claims that "there is a lot of competitive horsetrading" when the freshmen advisers play matchmakers with the incoming class...
...past, most alumni have returned to their college campus only for football games and reunions. This summer, however, thousands of old grads are going back for special one-and two-week programs known as "alumni colleges." They live in undergraduate dorms and sit up for all-night talk sessions. Courses range from "Life Up There and Down Here," dealing with the possibility of life in outer space (Cornell), to "The Reshaping of the American Dream" (Stanford). The spread of such programs in the past few years represents one of the few growth areas in U.S. higher education. Says Dartmouth Alumni...
Eddle "Lockjaw" Davis. Davis was born to play the tenor sax, it seems. Eight months after he bought his first horn, he was playing in Monroe's Uptown House in Hariem where the greatest jazz musicians of the time would match one another in all-night "cutting" sessions. Davis withdrew from the music scene in the early sixties, but he came back after a year to become a soloist and road manager for the Count Basic Band. Now on his own, he puts down a blues-based, funky sound that has charged listeners for three decades. At Sandy's Jazz...
...Moose"-moose being a corruption of the Japanese musume or girl. A recreation center has been developed to accompany the "spartan training" facility on Cheju Island, off the southern coast of South Korea; it offers sailing, scuba diving and duck and pheasant shooting. The division has even sponsored occasional all-night rock concerts, quaintly called "Gunstocks...
Ugliest Epithet. Outside the building, Socialist Leader Mario Scares and thousands of his supporters kept an all-night vigil in the rain. In the ugliest epithet imaginable, the angry crowd called Communist Leader Alvaro Cunhal "a new Salazar"-after the late dictator who ruled Portugal for more than 40 years. "Este jornal nāo ė de Cunhal! [This paper is not Cunhal's]" the Socialists shouted. Several times paratroopers sent to guard the building fired shots into the air; the crowd responded by shouting, "Assassins!" Finally Minister of Social Communications Jorge Correia Jesuino, representing the 30-man Revolutionary...