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...Smoker Committee, headed by Michael G. Yamin '53 is rounding out plans for some two hours of entertainment. It has signed two Boston night club acts. Alice O'Leary and Gay Guarino, a singing team from the Darbury Room, and Chick Carmen, a comic from The French Village. The Crimson Stempers will fill in the musical support...
...Communist Party of Florence is flat broke. Last week, Comrade Gino Mazzoni came forth with a brand-new project designed to achieve solvency: let each farmer in the country around Florence select the most promising chick in his flock, raise it carefully until ready for marketing, and remit the proceeds to the party exchequer. While the choice Communist chick is being fattened, added Gino brightly, it might be nice to distinguish it from its leaner non-Communist brethren by tying around its neck a bright red ribbon...
...Easter time in 1884, the Czarina received what at first glance looked like an ordinary hen's egg, but the shell beneath its white enamel was of gold. Inside it was a golden yolk, and inside that a golden chick. In the chick's stomach was a model of the imperial crown, and inside the crown was a tiny ruby egg. It went over big. "Next Easter," the Czar informed Fabergé, "we'll be wanting another surprise...
...Special Audience. Satchmo was enthusiastic about the spaghetti and about some Italian mineral water he had found. "I was skoaling with everybody up there in Scandanavia," he explained, "and that schnapps tore my stomach up." He also expressed interest in Roman history: "They tell me that Nero had a chick with him when this joint burnt down." But by all odds the high spot came after Satchmo (who has Baptist leanings and wears a Star of David medallion around his neck) said that he had always wanted to meet the Pope. It was arranged; Satchmo and his wife Lucille were...
...Harry Minkle and Charles Wharton, follow, plucking their merry way through "Wait Till The Sun Shines Nelly." With neither pause nor protest, Mr. Bones, James Shine (electrician) rolls out in front of those staid footlights to the tune of "Alexander's Ragtime Band," followed by Langdell Hall's own Chick Wyman (janitor) crooning in Bostonese the beloved strains of "Are You From Dixie...