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Like many CRIMSON stories, the letter was picked up and promptly phoned in to t he Boston papers by their undergraduate "stringers." These papers relayed it, in turn, to the AP's Boston office. An AP staff man worked the letter into what his office calls a "college cutie," leading it "Awaken, ye men of Harvard ... a 'Radcliffe Girl's Mother' would like to see you drafted." His version of the letter came close to the original, thought it was somewhat shorter and substituted "inspired" for "insipid." The story attributed the letter to the CRIMSON, saying it was "purportedly from...
...This AP item went out over a regional wire covering most of the New England and Middle Atlantic states; it reached New York City in time to make the next day's afternoon papers. All of them printed it, and all of the wire editors who handled the story pencilled out the "purportedly...
...York editors considered the AP story good enough to run it the next morning, although it was by then more than two days old. Only one left in "purportedly;" it was the "Daily Compass," a newspaper usually far less conservative...
...this time the AP's New York office, smelling a good feature, had routed the story over its transcontinental B-Wire, a teletype hook-up that reaches newspapers and radio stations all the way to Los Angeles. More than 100 papers and radio stations used the story. Some played it straight, 'HARVARD SEEN DRAFT SOURCE,' some as a gag, 'MOM WANTS SIMPERING HARVARDS IN SERVICE.' Public relation to the "Radcliffe Mother" was quick and active...
Columbia broke into eighth place in the AP basketball poll as undefeated Bradley continued to set the pace. After the Braves came Oklahoma A & M, Kentucky, L.I.U., St. Louis, Indiana, and North Carolina State...