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...public, Clive T. Miller '59 is apt to be rather offhand about his first novel, This Passing Night, which has just been published. At a reading he gave at Lowell House last week, he described the book as "two separate story lines, one that follows a group of students that have graduated from Harvard, and one that follows a teen-age gang in Brooklyn. The Harvard line takes place in Cambridge and Europe and has all the romantic stuff; the gang line has all the rapes and dirty stuff. Each chapter in the book is a sort of separate short...
...Committees and those who attended the Fall RGA conference at Ceder Hill are very enthusiastic about the whole thing. For most, though the Houses provide only a small, additional layer of substance to life at the Quad. The major attractions are still Harvard and Harvard men, and things are apt to stay that...
Died. Chet Roble (real name: Chester Wroblewski), 54, Chicago pianist admired around the Loop for his sublime "barefoot jazz," so called because his relaxing listeners were apt to kick off their shoes and wriggle their toes to the music; of a heart attack; in Chicago...
Dartmouth's scalping raid takes place in the Yale Bowl this week. The Yalies, who could only manage a tie against Colgate, may be able to put up some limited resistance, but it is apt to be only token...
...every airplane traveler ""grumbles. first class is barely worth the money. The extras he is offered-a couple of free drinks, a slightly more elegant meal, a bit more leg room, a bigger choice of periodicals and. with luck, a movie he hasn't yet seen-are apt to cost him a third more than the regular coach fare, get him to his destination no more quickly than the people sitting in the less prestigious rows behind him. So complained United Air Lines President William A. Patterson in a speech last week to the Passenger Traffic Association...