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...White House on problems involving Negro, Jewish and other minority groups has been a roly-poly bachelor named David K. Niles. A Russian tailor's son who learned politics in the political cauldrons of Massachusetts, Niles entered the White House under Harry Hopkins' banner, soon got to be one of President Roosevelt's six assistants with "a passion for anonymity." When Harry Truman moved in in 1945, shrewd Dave Niles stayed on, before long was the only New Deal relic left in the President's "little cabinet...
Dynamic Baptist Poling, onetime college fullback, former temperance crusader, World War II chaplain, newspaper columnist and author of 26 books, had a little political experience too-he once ran for Governor of Ohio on the Prohibition ticket, losing handily. He was willing to carry the Republican banner this time, said Poling, if the G.O.P. bosses gave him a ticket he could "fight for." The bosses said all right...
There's only one thing traditionally absent from Tree Day: the Sophomore banner. Anytime earlier in the year, freshmen use any ruse they can to steal the banner, including John Harvard's dressed as girls who sneak into the banner cache. The sophomores get thir banner back, though after the ceremonies...
...similar social consciousness carries through into the undergraduate's every action. An alumna tells the story of this spring's version of a traditional Wellesley rite--theft of the sophomore banner by freshmen. In an unusually spirited retaliation, the sophomores kidnapped the president of the freshman class and held her overnight in ransom for their flag. "Of course," the alumna adds quickly, "they asked the permission of the Dean of Students first...
...guesses. The New Orleans Times Picayune put out its early edition while still observing on the editorial page that "there is no indication that the President is considering the removal of MacArthur." The Hartford Courant kept its editorial which said that "Mr. Truman is afraid of MacArthur," while its banner headlines said the opposite. But it was a measure of the decline of the editorial writer's art that many editors found their editorials foggy or innocuous enough to fit the facts both before & after MacArthur was fired...