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Pagan Love Song (MGM) casts Esther Williams adrift in the shallows of a musicomedy set in Tahiti (and filmed on Hawaiian locations). Esther plays a well-to-do Tahitian half-caste who meets, loses and finally gets a plantation heir (Howard Keel) newly arrived from Ohio. In the full flush...
Like the Houses, Colleges have developed reputations. Davenport, Pierson, Branford, and Calhoun are ellegedly the homes of the socially prominent the "white shoe men," and hence the most desirable. Berkeley, Jonathan Edwards, and Timothy Dwight fit into a middle caste. Silliman is the home of vigorous but not big time...
* Sri means "Mr." Last week Jawaharlal Nehru's office announced that he had dropped the title Pandit (Learned One) in accordance with the Indian constitution, which does not recognize caste titles. Henceforth, India's Premier will be known simply as Sri Jawaharlal Nehru.
The Ranas won the championship of Nepal in a gory elimination tournament in 1846. The reigning monarch at that time was Rajendra Bikram Sahi, a blue-blooded Rajput (Hindu warrior caste) and a descendant of Vishnu the Lifesaver. For all that, the King was nuttier than a pecan tree in...
Robert W. Day '53, of Adams House, feared that there would be a caste distinction between those who earn their room rent by serving as porters and those who are fortunate enough not to have to work. "It might not be a very democratic practice," he said.