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That "white sidewall" haircut episode was the stupidest piece of bureaucratic nonsense I ever heard of. The Sepoy mutiny in India (1857-59) started because some silly ass in the British army ordered the Mohammedan native troops (who could not eat pigs) to bite off the end of a cartridge which had been waterproofed with pig fat. This mutiny cost the lives of thousands of troops on both sides. I'm not suggesting that we are starting a second Sepoy mutiny, but I'd like to point out that a lot of trained technicians are not re-enlisting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 12, 1957 | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

Willard G. McGraw, Jr.: Winthrop; House Comm., Sec.; Ass't House Ath. Sec.; House football and baseball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1957 Permanent Class Committee Candidates | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

William B. Pennell: Leverett (Claverly Senior House); Band, Ass't mgr.; Stud. Council Comm. on Religion; House Glee Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1957 Permanent Class Committee Candidates | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

William C. Brady, II: Pres. New Cons. Club; HSC Academic Freedom Comm., Chair.; Newman Quarterly, Ass't Ed.; Pol. Forum, Chair.; PBH Social Service Comm., Ass't Chair.; Interhouse Debate Council; Club Hispanico, Pres...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1957 Permanent Class Committee Candidates | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...they did their celebrated book for Carmen) on a work by Prosper Mérimée.* As a pretty street singer who ditches her poor but honest boy friend (Baritone Theodor Uppman) for a viceroy of Peru, Soprano Patrice Munsel does some discreet bumps and grinds, rides an ass, and prettily sings the operetta's best-known tune, a farewell aria to her sweetheart-one of those lovely, almost-convincing pieces of lyricism that Offenbach turned out along with his musical ironies. In addition to the ass ridden by Soprano Munsel-a beast named Amos, rented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Romp at the Met | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

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