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...want to see Dean Holbrook," he stormed at one of the secretaries. After about 10 minutes, he was led into the presence of the dean. "It's either the graders or me, Dean Holbrook," he shouted incoherently. "One of us has got to go." The dean finally managed to clam Grouser and hear his complaint. "You obviously aren't acquainted with the technical workings of the grading system. Why don't you go to see Professor Hubbard, the head of the Managerial reports?" Grouser didn't feel like being shuttled between offices, but he did want to give this Hubbard...
...took official cognizance of 70-year-old Rudy Forster's approach to the retirement age next month by signing an executive order exempting him from the automatic retirement provision. The exemption of 73-year-old clerk Maurice Latta was extended. "This is permanent," wrote the President to modest, clam-mouthed Rudy Forster. "I do not want either of you to leave me as long as I am here...
Yesterday's meager registration of 213 Summer School and graduate students was called but the clam before the storm by Stanley K. Leonard, Chief Registrar, who expects that today's and Monday's flood of students will keep Memorial Hall clerks and solicitors busy from 9 until one o'clock...
...file. It is hard to decide who is hammiest, Miss Blondell, hubby Dick Powell or other-man Lee Bowman in the transparent love-plot involving secret marriage and desire-for-baby. "Model Wife" has two redeeming features, the expert comedy acting of Charles Ruggles, and the fact that the clam-faced Powell is not called upon to sing...
Problem. In the Delaware River, a cargo of gravel shifted suddenly in a steel barge. The barge turned over on a wooden scow beside it; the two clamped deck to deck like the shells of a clam (see cut). Last week rivermen still wondered how to get them apart...