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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also developed a talent for enchanting everyone within earshot of his piano (his mother, Kate Porter, now 87, made him practice every day). At Yale he moved about socially and expensively, wrote undergraduate shows, skipped regularly into Manhattan to see the Broadway output, and often got back to the campus on a milk train...
Betty K. Heaton '51, chairman of Radcliffe's Community Service organization, announced posterday that the group would back plans for similar dormitory parties next year. "This year's parties were so successful that the practice should be continued next year," Miss Heaton said. She added that off-campus houses and dorms which had entertained children in pre-Christmas parties received letters of appreciation from local Community Service agencies encouraging similar festivities next year...
...Minnesota campus was full of New Deal-talk. Humphrey plunged enthusiastically into the midst of it. He gulped down the New Deal ideology, lock, stock & pork-barrel. He became a big wheel in the political science department, a voluble, incessant talker-long on persuasiveness, a little short on logic. A professor once told him: "If God had given you as much brains as he has given you wind, you would be sure to be another Cicero...
...Fordham in the days of its great mid '30s football teams, had taken a wartime opportunity to halt football altogether, allowed it to return (in 1946) on only a very chastened scale. Said Gannon: "We want to get [it] off the vaudeville stage and . . . back to the campus...
...University's latest political group is a result of a desire by the Young Progressives of Harvard to unite organizations and individuals, of anti-draft sentiment, on or off the Harvard campus. It will include those who oppose selective service on moral grounds, such as pacifists, and those who object on political grounds such as World Federalists...