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Just as this morning's CRIMSON went to press, a small foreign-looking man was discovered in the act of stealing all of today's inserts. The papers were retrieved, but the man escaped. The first episode of "The Circle of Seven," starring Biff Bundle, University Cop, appears in this insert...
...warm April wind played softly through the sandy hair of Biff Bundie, as he walked briskly under the bridge connecting Houghton and Widener libraries on the first day of his new assignment as University undercover agent. A broad smile played brightly across his face, and he was whistling, for everything seemed as sunny...
...recently exposed an undergraduate counterfeiting ring so successfully, that the Chief had promoted him to special plain-clothes man, a position created just for Biff. Now as he strolled along, disguised as Kevin Stoddard Heath '61, a third year graduate student in English, he eyed everything around him as if it might bear close inspection...
With that one-liner, a new young folk singer named Biff Rose begins his lead-in to a song extolling Salinger's conquer or, George Murphy, the actor-hoofer who is now the junior Senator from California. He then goes on to recite a poem about the days of the whaling ships, supplying the sound of the anchors schlurping up from the bottom and the howls of storms at sea. His hero, Captain Medford, was a big man in New Bedford, he explains, in an era when there were 700 whaling ships "and only about 200 whales...
...life. Actually, he is a 1959 graduate of Loyola University in New Orleans. His father's name was Paul Rose, his mother was Pauline Rose, his sister's name is Paula, and his name is Paul Jr. Inevitably, neighbors called them The Four Roses. "On radio," says Biff, "the bad guys are always called Biff. I was an ugly, ugly baby, a big gangster baby, and Mother said I looked like a Biff...