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Panting at the prospect of a "bang-up time promised for all" at the Wellesley get-acquainted dance Saturday night, over 300 self-styled protagonists of the dance and allied fields stormed the CRIMSON office early yesterday morning to vie for positions on the limited list of 200 to be accepted for the get-together...
Present to receive the male hordes will be 400 first-year Waban females, and a bang-up time is promised...
...point, the emotional maladjustments of this unhappy quartet are pictured with realism and honesty. But an honest solution to all their complex problems would certainly have endangered the film's entertainment possibilities. Producer Dore Schary took no such risk. After a bang-up barroom brawl and an exchange of neat, safe platitudes, everything at the fade-out is suddenly just dandy for everybody...
...Church of England's Commission on Evangelism wanted to hire an advertising agency. Some argued that church-going should be put across with the kind of bang-up press and poster campaign that makes a cathartic into a national habit. Canon Marcus Knight of St. Paul's Cathedral was not enthusiastic. Observed the Canon at a Commission meeting: "There would be a real danger of having a portly bishop sitting on a Noah's Ark in a stormy sea, with a slogan, 'The Church of England prevents that sinking feeling...
...Bang-Up Blend. In Nylstroom, South Africa, a habitual smoker absently dropped a .22 cartridge into his tobacco pouch, later filled and lit his pipe, puffed contentedly until the pipe abruptly and noisily vanished, and a small round hole appeared in the roof...