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Recovering from their Dartmouth slump the Crimson played a slow but good game, taking more shots than in any other match this fall. Tech packed the defense tightly--sometimes leaving only the center forward on the midstripe--and successfully managed to cramp the visitor's attack...
...York City, Esquire Socks introduced one-size nylon Expand-O socks which it claims will fit any man's feet. The nylon fiber is made by a secret process that gives it an elastic quality, permits the socks to expand evenly so that they do not cramp the feet. Price: $1.50 a pair...
...Play. To Austrian-born Ludwig Bemelmans, 53, all this was still a novelty, for until about a year ago, he had painted mostly to illustrate his writings. Then he came to the conclusion that he really hated to write ("I walk around a typewriter for hours with a cramp in my stomach"). Painting was different. "This is all play, you know. And I am now in a position where I can afford to play...
...film's plot, however feeble, is enough to cramp the free-style wackiness of Martin & Lewis. In turn, their witless routines put a blight on whatever slim fun the play once offered in situations and dialogue. Between straight-man chores, Crooner Martin imitates Bing Crosby in the picture's songs, including one that gets billing as a Crosby imitation. Though he mugs, screeches, gyrates, even swishes through a female impersonation, Comedian Lewis sorely lacks one prop that has bolstered his success: a well-oiled nightclub audience...
More and more, however, as the report shows, universities and legislatures are tending to act against whole faculties at once. Loyalty oaths and group-prohibitions have multiplied since last year. Again it is liberals rather than Communists who are most often injured by such processes. Oaths do not cramp real Communists, who would not be so foolish as to admit their party allegiances. Nor are oaths necessary as evidence later on against subversives, since there are already more than enough laws under which such people can be prosecuted. But loyalty tests do frighten men who might have belonged to some...