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...sure the war in Europe was over. But most felt that they had already lived through a sort of V-E week, and across the great Main Street of America there was only a little cheering. In Des Moines a housewife telephoned a newspaper: "Shall I go ahead and bake a pie for tomorrow?" In Emporia, Kans., as in most of the nation's towns and villages, it was another Monday and another washday. But on this Monday, Emporia got the news that four more of its sons had been killed in battle...
...than a succession of tunes, the music helps interpret the story; it has operatic climaxes, choral fullness, choreographic lilt. But it is still in tunes that Composer Rodger's real magic lies-whether the tender If I Loved You, the light, murmurous This Was a Real Nice Clam Bake, the full-throated sweetness of June Is Bustin' Out All Over. And Hammerstein has caught their spirit with his lyrics...
...laughed at upper classmen's high jinks as juvenile mumbo-jumbo. He turned in his pledge pin, asked Dean Scott Goodnight for assignment to a dormitory room. The Dean questioned him closely, found that his fraternity elders had not only paddled him 27 times, but had made him bake himself at the fraternity hearth...
Pedal Extremity. In Oakland, Calif., Mrs. Very Perry won a divorce on the ground that her husband, Joaquin, to keep her from running around at night, soaked her shoes in water, put them in the oven to bake and shrink...
Something ought to be done about: 1) The absolute lack of social-life amongst the 171 of us. Some kind of a dance or clam-bake or lynching party should be organized. With men like Jock Brunner and Bill James straining at the leash only the inspiration is needed. Don Brown suggests that a formal dance would go well the weekend after Labor Day. I guess, maybe, he's right. 2) The singing and marching on the way to chow. The morale which made us almost conspicuous during our Midshipmen term has just about disintegrated. Perhaps the new songs which...