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Adams, Dunster, and Leverett committeemen announced plans for using their shares of the season's profits to buy television sets for their common rooms...
...Harvardians' performances this year indicate that they are a chip off the old block as regards reliability and professional worksmanship--welcome news to dance committeemen, plagued with the now-you-see-me-now-you-don't tactics of the local standbys. If all goes well, they should soon be outstripping the Yale Collegians...
Deep-Voiced Man. With that, the committeemen informed Hiss coldly that his testimony corroborated Chambers' in detail. How could he explain such point-by-point testimony from a man he said he had never met? Hiss produced a note pad from his pocket. On it, he said, he had written the name of the only man he had ever known who might possibly fit Chambers' description. The name was "George Crosley...
...known Crosley that well, the committeemen wondered, why had it been so difficult to make an identification? Snapped Hiss: "If this man had said he was George Crosley I would have had no difficulty in identification. He denied it right here." Then he asked permission to fire a few more questions at Chambers...
Then he turned angrily on the committeemen: "I would like to say that to come here and discover that the ass under the lion's skin is Crosley-I don't know why your committee didn't pursue this careful method of interrogation at an earlier date before all of this publicity...