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Your reporter replied that he had no time to verify these tips because his deadline was too close, and that if he waited another day, the story would be dead. Over the course of nearly an hour's discussion, he tried to browbeat me into allowing him to publish my suggestions as direct accusations of the professors in question. I protested that the CRIMSON had no right to do such a thing, that my remarks were made in confidence, and that if he lacked the time to verify what I had said, then he could not publish the story...
CARTER complains continually of the load of work and responsibility he carries. At times he admits: "I'm tired. I don't know why I do all this." But in the next breath, he will order lunch for 300, plan a benefit show, browbeat a railroad president to get switching facilities for a Fort Worth factory, telephone New York, bully a tightfisted friend into giving $5,000 to a Carter charity, oversee the decorative detail for the men's lavatories in the new $12 million Amon Carter airport, plot another skirmish with that old devil Dallas...
...professor was a wonderful burglar, but he and Francine got to fighting over such issues as who would pay the $150-3-month rent on their off-campus love nest. She spitefully threatened to expose his criminal career. Last July she even browbeat him into signing a confession. He sat down and typed out a list of his burglaries, blaming them on "neurotic individualism." Francine gave the confession to a Santa Barbara detective, who just as obediently kept a promise not to read it until she gave the word...
...B.C.S., M.C.S. and M.A.) and played football, basketball and baseball. This unrelenting will to work shows up in Bee's coaching. "I work my players harder [three hours a day] than any other coach in the business," Bee says pridefully. " work 'em, bawl 'em out, browbeat 'em . . . and they hate me." Though his players may not actually hate Bee, one of his stars recently "quit" the team because "we just couldn't get along." Bee had him back, hard at work, two days later...
Gallo said last night that Dartmouth extends party permission until midnight on its Winter Carnival weekend. Committee member William V. H. Mason '51 added "We're not trying to browbeat the Housemasters or fight with them. The masters are on our side. We're just trying to work with them and figure out a sensible solution...