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WHRB's LP recording of the Lowell House Musical Society's Acis and Galatea is certainly a bit of good luck. The blurb on the back of the envelope tells us that the broadcast of last spring's performance was recorded as an experiment. It goes on to say that the success justified its release. This is true...
...many of the class of '52; or at least it's in my mind. Over a year ago we were signed up for the '52 Register and Red Book--the two costing $6. We received the Register shortly before Christmas last year. The Red Book, according to the blurb, is to contain our pictures, sports articles, and write-ups of our activities in our freshman year. The pictures are to be the same ones that were in the Register; all freshman activities have been over for some time, but no tentative date has even been set for the Red Book...
Careful perusal of dispatches will prove, however, that the Big Green deserves at least a part of the two touchdown advantage New York bookmakers are granting them. A great deal of the mimeographed blurb distributed to the press would have you believe that they will be playing without benefit of backfield, but a second look will show that Johnny Clayton, Hal Fitkin, Herb Caroy, and Bill Dey are all ready and waiting...
According to her publisher's blurb, Shirley Jackson, whose recent New Yorker stories have been grouped in "The Lottery," is a practicing amateur witch. This is surprisingly easy to believe. For some of her stories manage to conjure up black magic that would have been extremely self-satisfying to any of Miss Jackson's late Salem forerunners...
...parade-ground tactics of the 18th Century Brit ish army; later, as any World War II infantryman who sweated out the world's most thorough rifle instruction in training camp knows, the common sense of the 17703 became doctrine. Pratt leaves it to his publishers, in a jacket blurb, to add that "the national tradition that included Daniel Boone and the Mountain Man . . . would naturally produce high-altitude precision bombing, and the Task Force in a later century." Pratt himself concentrates on the infantryman...