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...Barn 20, two sets of Vanderbilt horses had already returned from workouts. They were led up a neat row of peppermint-striped water pails. At each pail, a groom swabbed down a horse with a sponge of warm water, then covered him with a bright "cooler" (blanket). Then the "hot walkers" took over, for the lowly but necessary job of walking the work-hot horses for 30 minutes or an hour, until they have been gradually watered and cooled. For the Dancer, the day was just beginning...
...toughest scrap. Mitchum also plays a scene calculated to set up a wolf-call cacophony from one end of the nation to the other: he sternly tells a drenched Marilyn to get undressed, and then gives her a brisk rubdown while, the Monroe epidermis is covered only by a blanket...
This would not be the first time the blanket prohibition has worn through. For example, two years ago, the Band appeared on television for a charity drive, while the same year, the Rugby Club was denied permission to play at a benefit for Cerebral Palsy. The Band and football team have consistently been heard on Atlantic Oil sportcasts. This random selection of clubs and sponsors leaves the rule arbitrary at best. Only by giving all groups automatic permission, can the University avoid appearing to discriminate between them...
...University, from appearing before large audiences. But, carried to the extreme, the prohibition is hardly airtight. Any student may appear on radio or television as a person. Even a large group, accidentally comprising the full membership of some organization, could theoretically appear on any show. Moreover, the blanket rule, in following the Administration's no-favorites policy, also sidelines groups which would add credit to the University...
...this same bill would prohibit employees from paying dues or giving other support to a union deemed under Communist domination, and would deny any member of such a group employment in a defense plant. Although it is, of course, vital that saboteurs be kept out of industry, a blanket measure of this kind raises more problems than it answers. It would be up to the Subversives Activities Control Board to decide if a union is Communist dominated, and in times of fear, this Board could be pressured into unwise decisions. Also, it would be an easy matter to extend control...