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...that Russell himself refuses to say flatly that he will abide by the convention decision. The farthest he will go is: "I don't foresee anything that will cause me to leave the party. But I'm not going to take any paralyzed oath not to bolt...
Thirty six juniors were chosen for the honorary usher position. The list was as follows: Allen Barry Kirkland; Charles Boit, Leverett; Robert Bolt, Eliot; Thorley Briggs, Lowell; Donald Cantor, Winthrop; Philip Cronin Lowell; Paul Crowley Leverett; John Davidson Adams; Gilbert Elsner Lowell; Thomas Everhart Kirkland; Jerry Henderson Adams; and Danna Hastings Kirkland...
...many another TV panel show, Down You Go is based on an oldtime parlor game-in this case, Hangman. The panelists are faced with a board on which a number of blanks represent the letters in some well-known phrase, e.g., "second fiddle," "it's Greek to me," "bolt from the blue." Whenever a panelist suggests a letter not represented in the phrase, he goes "down," and $5 is forwarded to the viewer who suggested the phrase. If all four panelists go down, the viewer wins $25 and that granddaddy of quiz prizes, "a full set of the Encyclopaedia...
Robert S. Bolt '53, spokesman for the Council, last night stated that since only courses with small enrollments have exams in the last two days of the exam-period most students will probably enjoy the normal two-day vacation. Some students, he said, will probably have a longer stay between terms under the new schedule...
...nominate Truman or a Trumanite, and adopt another all-out civil-rights plank, is uncertain. Dick Russell wouldn't say what he will do. In 1948 he let his name go before the convention, and got 263 votes. But he refused to join the Dixiecrats' post-convention bolt. After a 1952 convention defeat, the Southern Democrats could again try a third party, or they could try to swing the South to the Republican side. Unless the G.O.P. nominee is Dwight Eisenhower, the second course is no more likely than the first...