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...Catfish Row. At the opening last week in the huge auditorium of the Palace of Cultural and Industrial Cooperatives, the Stars and Stripes flew beside the Hammer and Sickle while the band played The Star-Spangled Banner and the Anthem of the Soviet Union. The house was packed, and dapper Lorenzo Fuller brought it down before the curtain went up by saying, "Dobro Pozhalovat Druzya -Welcome, friends...
...Carre. When the surgery chair was vacant in 1894, there was talk of importing a Johns Hopkins man, but the New Orleans press staged an unprecedented campaign: "Matas and Matas only!" "Call for Matas." The outrage was averted, and in 33 years goateed Dr. Matas raised Tulane's banner high. He was one of the first surgeons to operate behind a screen of sheets soaked in carbolic acid in an effort to achieve sterile conditions, one of the first to use drip infusions (such as sugar and salt solutions) into veins. And he invented a daring operation to open...
...probably saved his life. The Beria liquidation process carried off the entire top level of the security forces. No one (outside the Kremlin) knows who actually carried out this liquidation, but two days after Aba-kumov's execution, Serov got the Red Banner of Labor, and in a few months moved into the top security job. Nearly two years later, he gives, say observers, "a nervous but energetic impression." He should; all five previous holders of the Soviet Union's top security job have died with their thick-soled shoes...
With the establishment of this one group, Conservatism and the University as a whole should benefit. Previously the NCC and the HCL have only succeeded in warring on each other. Now, combined under the banner of the NCC, they should be able to offer the University a coherent program--one which will allow a fruitful discussion of the theories and practices of Conservatism...
...Harvard attitude was not entirely lacking at this year's service classic, however. Early in the game, Cadets unfurled a banner with the familiar "Fight fiercely, fellows" emblazoned...