Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Better run, not walk, to the H.A.A. office for your Army game tickets. Manager Frank O. Lunden yesterday revealed that seniors had gobbled up half of the original undergraduate allotment, leaving mostly end-zone scraps for sophomores and freshmen...
Bouquet. In Walhalla, S.C., Etta Jackson won a suspended sentence after explaining to the court that the twelve half-gallon jugs of bootleg whisky dug up in her garden were placed there only to make the flowers grow better...
...shambles of sight gags, unfinished sentences and self-applause, Milton Berle last week returned to TV. Before a banner screaming: "Welcome back, Mr. Television," he raced through a brilliantly paced and enthusiastically vulgar show (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC-TV). There were some better-than-usual jokes (Berle poking his head between the curtains to ask drowsily: "Porter-what station is this?"), and plenty of corny ones (the first stooge to come onstage spit water in Berle's eye). But, as usual, whatever Comic Berle said or did reduced the studio audience to helpless shrieks of laughter. Even Berle...
...selection, however, must be left to the administrative discretion of the college presidents. I doubt that the assistance of the Massachusetts General Assembly is necessary for the survival of the free mind in our schools. I rather suspect, in fact, that our administrators are better qualified to determine a curriculum, than are our representatives at the State House. I must certainly continue to insist that attempts to legislate controls upon our schools are more dangerous than a communist here and there could hope to be. John Clardi
...even better than kind of entertainment was the artistic value of Ives' songs. I have heard Burl Ives sing a great many times both on records and in night clubs. In both cases it was impossible to realize the true clarity of his voice and the mellowness of his tone. Either there was surface noise on the records, or the sound of some drunken woman cackling...