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...foxholes ... their lives endangered, are nervous and miserable and want girls. Since they can't have them, they smoke cigarets. The girls at home . . . their virtue not endangered, are nervous and miserable and want boys. Since they can't have them, they too smoke cigarets. So what happens? The briar pipe resumes its rightful place as the companion of the philosophic male whose gonadal preoccupations have vanished with the years...
...hell," said General Sherman, and college girls of 1944 have taken up his cry. From Oregon to Florida, from Sweet Briar to Bryn Mawr, lonely young American females bewail a shift in the balance of power between college men and women. The men now hold the reins...
...choice. There were 75 Democrats in the Senate then. Caucusing, they threw their ballots into Carter Glass's battered old Panama. The first 74 to be counted were evenly divided; the 75th was for Alben Barkley. When the result was announced, he bit off the stem of his briar pipe...
...Help. In Salinas, Calif., the principal and faculty of Washington Junior High School had to do the sweeping. At Sweet Briar College, Va., the President and faculty jerked sodas at the local fountain...
Outside the East most of our women editors and researchers were co-eds counted above-but most of the women's colleges are represented here too: Smith (17 graduates), Vassar (12), Wellesley (9), Radcliffe (6), Bryn Mawr (5)-Sweet Briar, Mount Holyoke, Hunter, Skidmore and Sarah Lawrence...