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Fifteen fun-loving freshmen staged an ingenious prank last night. It went something like this: these here humorous people snuck into the Union (after it was closed and locked for the night!) and unscrewed a tremendous, ugly cannon barrel from its base, somewhere in the basement of that building. Then, after tremendous exertions, they lugged it upstairs and (can you believe it?) propped it up diagonally in the door to the dining room. Well, everyone was tremendously amused, you may be assured. They all laughed immoderately...
...today's short supply, the best tenor singing is an American. Richard Tucker-stocky (5 ft. 8 in., 185 Ibs.), barrel-chested and plainly middle-aged (47)-was this week commanding the stage of the Metropolitan Opera (in Tosca, with Leontyne Price). Merely scheduling, his appearance promised one of the Met's truly distinguished evenings. The promise lies in Tucker's consistency: other tenors may match him on a given night, but no other tenor maintains his steadily high average of performance (a fact that prompts Tucker to say, with some exaggeration: "I've never given...
...months after she took Chloromycetin late in 1958, Mrs. Love felt weak and went to another doctor, who diagnosed aplastic anemia, in which the bone marrow fails to make enough blood cells. Her husband sold his business, the Beer Barrel Tavern outside Redding, to pay for her care, including 60 transfusions. At Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital Center, the transfusions and vigorous treatment with cortisone and testosterone kept Mrs. Love among the 25% of patients who get aplastic anemia and survive, but the hormones produced their own side effects. Though Chloromycetin causes these severe reactions in only one of an estimated...
...continued, "is that they see everything in terms of black and white. If we took a few administrative steps, they think, all would be solved and life would be rosy. We've cut just about everything we can from dorm costs; we've hit the bottom of the barrel...
Golden Guano. The imagination and energy that rebuilt Grace flows from President J. Peter Grace Jr., 48, the barrel-chested grandson of William Russell Grace, who founded the company in 1854. Founder Grace, a scrawny, 22-year-old refugee from the Irish potato famine, began as a ship's chandler to the merchantmen who were flocking to Peru for cargoes of guano, the mineral-rich bird droppings used as fertilizer. With his profits as a chandler, he outfitted his own ships, established sugar plantations, and soon had created an intricate distribution network up and down the west coast...