Word: bandwagons
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...thing in abundance: charm. Not so, says one Marcel Ranville, who has found it necessary and profitable to run a charm school in Paris and launch a campaign for greater "amiability." Some weeks ago, the Ministers of Public Health, Education, Commerce & Industry enthusiastically jumped on Ranville's amiability bandwagon, formed an official committee to better "the day to day relationships of the Parisian people." By last week Parisian relationships were just about as sweet as a midinette's smile...
Penn's revolt, particularly if such heavyweights as Notre Dame and Army should jump on the bandwagon, seemed calculated to wreck the whole N.C.A.A. effort to work out a TV compromise. But the N.C.A.A. cracked down fast. It declared that Penn is "a member not in good standing," hence subject to expulsion (by a two-thirds vote) at the next N.C.A.A. convention in January...
When Helen Hicks became the first U.S. woman golf professional in 1934, no one jumped on the bandwagon with her. One reason: there was no money in the women's game. As recently as 1948 only six women managed to earn a living from professional golf. But last week, at White Plains, N.Y., 13 of the 18 pro golfers belonging to the fledgling Ladies' P.G.A. were scrambling around the hilly Knollwood course in quest of prize money that will total $80,000 this year. The big wheel on the women's circuit...
...custodian of another sort. It was not even a university officially until 1887-eleven years after Baltimore's Johns Hopkins began as a model. It did not bother with a full-fledged engineering school until 1932-36 years after Columbia. It did not climb aboard the "elective" bandwagon until Harvard had tried the experiment for 20 years, or build its residential colleges until 1933, when Harvard's houses were already three years old. Even its fraternities were never cast from the campus wholesale, as were those at Princeton under President Woodrow Wilson, though most have long since severed...
...Communists. Although forbidden to join unions, 55,000 Moroccan workers signed up with the Confédération Générale du Travail, dominated by French Communists. The Communists had been against the Istiqlal in 1945, but by 1949 they were jumping on the nationalist bandwagon. More & more Arabs started taking part in Communist demonstrations...