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...despite brave attempts at a Yale game and a pre-war atmosphere, Harvard College was almost as insipid and hollow a place during the fall term as it had been from 1943 on. The turning point came on the warm autumn day of Friday, February 1, when 1200 veterans, new Harvardmen and old, marched through Memorial Hall, bought their combined SERVICE NEWS-CRIMSON subscriptions, and added new flavor to a stale Cantab brew...
...when many a Southerner strove to forget his shabbiness with genteel pretence. The Crump children often got no firecrackers for Christmas; they were urged instead to pop dried, inflated pig bladders saved from the autumn slaughtering. Their one-room school was never painted-elders murmured evasively that they were waiting for the nailheads to rust. But even as a skinny, redheaded boy, Ed Crump stared at the world with the discerning eyes of a realist...
...chill autumn twilight, Pedro Pisani, citizen of Buenos Aires, sat on the sidewalk before his three-room suburban home, sipped unsugared mate (South American tea), and considered his lot. He was worried about the future. Argentine-born son of Italian immigrants, father of three, mild-mannered Pedro had worked for 20 years or more in the offices of Gath & Chaves, a big downtown department store. Until two years ago he earned $50 a month. Since then, Juan Perón's election-time decrees (and the store's voluntary raises) had upped his pay to $63. Still...
...passing, these svelte and stylish women, they didn't even notice him. Little did they think that here went Bernard Clare, who was in love with Eva Stone, and who someday would be a writer, writing of New York, of lovely women gay on its gay Saturday-afternoon autumn streets, gay under the grey skies of New York...
Things actually began better than anyone had hoped. In the first five minutes Molotov agreed to let Host Georges Bidault discuss the Finnish and Balkan treaties-the very issue that had broken up the Foreign Ministers' meeting at London last autumn. Next Molotov budged a little from Russia's insistence that Italy pay $300,000,000 in reparations; he helped pick a committee to decide what Italy could pay. In the sessions that followed he made a series of small concessions on the Italian peace treaty...