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Little Benjamin Thurlow Ballou is as sweet as a cluster of lollipops. Though he is only three years old, Benjy is the best little tot in Smiles, Pa., and he always does just what his Mummy tells him. In the morning he puts on his little pink shoes and his little pink sugarplum bathrobe all by himself, and at night he puts his cute little toys neatly away in his playbox. All this makes Benjy feel "toasty-warm all over." and he can't help snuggling up to his mother and saying, "I'm gwad you my Mummy...
...Cigar Hunt. When Mrs. Ballou isn't bear-hugging her little darling, she likes to gaze fondly at her college diploma framed upon the wall. Some people, she points out to Benjy, lack her advantages. The most conspicuous lackee is Daddy Ballou, a monosyllabic TV repairman. Daddy usually climbs into the TV set after dinner, or sometimes with his dinner, and fiddles with a few wires. Daddy and Mummy also play a game called "Cigar Hunt," which Mummy generally wins with the magic words. "All right . . . hand it over!" For Mummy's sake Benjy is anxious to straighten...
Despite housing difficulties, Miss Ballou asserted that, unlike Harvard, Radcliffe will not require any freshman to commute unless she has requested...
Although a smaller incoming class has been accepted, applications to Radcliffe this year were seven percent greater than the previous year, Miss Ballou disclosed last month...
...committee will not disclose how many applicants were accepted nor the total number of applications the college received. Miss Ballou said, however, that Radcliffe may reconsider its policy on withholding statistics on acceptances, since many other schools, including Harvard, do release this information...