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...convention has now took a rest over Sunday, and it ain't like they didn't need it. If they was a doctor in the house his advice to the delegates would be to stay quietly in bed a few days and try and sip down a little clam juice." RING LARDNER...
...successes and it probably bumbled no more than previous Councils. The trouble lay more in what it failed to do, the fields which it did not consider. To solve this problem, we recommend a little emphasis on originality and less on "campus politicking." Or, if you will, if the clam juice runs a little short, a little nip of brandy neat might do the trick...
...freelancer at 57, Walker turned up in Dallas, 140 miles from his ranch, at the Southwest Journalism Forum. In a rattle of pronouncements on the state of U.S. journalism, he proved as tart as ever. ¶On "objectivity" in newswriting: "It produces something like a symmetrical pile of clam shells with all the succulent goodness carefully removed...
Chartered bus transportation will be offered to Summer School students for the Rudolf Serkin piano performance at Castle Hill on Saturday night. Buses will leave from Thayer Gate at 5:30 and should arrive at Ipswich around 7:00. Cost of the excursion is $5.00 including a clam supper on the beach and a $2.50 ticket to the performance. Anyone who would rather eat lobster may feel free to pay 75 cents extra and do so. Estimated time of return is midnight...
...them off. When a man runs up against a sticky problem there is always the temptation for him to appoint a committee or call a conference to get him off the hook. Says New York Management Consultant Everett Smith: "The average individual is as happy as a clam to hide behind a committee." A variation of the decision-postponing conference is the loaded conference. This is called after an executive has already buttonholed the conferees, thus assured himself that they are in agreement with him. Then a time-wasting formal conference is called, simply to hedge the executive against criticism...