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...with the memory of the last exam still making your fingers tired, and that crick in the back you get from bending over a Mem Hall desk. Now is the time. But no mood. You've got to feel debonair, and sentimental in a sophisticated sort of way, to write your farewell. Vag could think of a lot of things he wanted to talk about: the first date at Radcliffe; the first date at Wellesley; the difference. None of that. Stick to the subject. That sort of thing happens all over the world. This is Harvard. This is different...
While inspecting munitions works in Birmingham, Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth was so miserable with torticollis (crick in the neck) that King George sent for Elmer T. Pheils, a U. S. osteopath, who gently, skillfully rubbed Her Majesty's royal neck for ten minutes, made it feel much better...
Aaron Slick From Punkin Crick (Tues. 8 p.m., CBS). Famed rural comedy tops off more than 25,000 country stage performances with its radio debut, opening Four Corners Theatre series...
...within the columns of the "patent insides" [i. e. syndicated pages]. Many a publisher uses it either because of laziness, local news scarcity, or because he feels the "patents" give his readers a pleasant respite from such red hot local items as "Bill McSwiggerty was riding up Box Elder Crick for strayed cattle this week," or, "Ed Huffnagle was female-ing up at Spooners' Corners Wednesday night...
When Mrs. Helen Wills Moody fell ill last week of what her doctors called "sub-acute unstable fifth lumbar vertebrae symptoms" and what Sports Colyumist Westbrook Pegler called "a crick in her back," it looked alarming for the U. S. Wightman Cup team. The ablest substitute in sight was slim, brown Sarah Palfrey, a girl who has played the most graceful tennis in the U. S. for the last four years but who has always, out of some childish nervousness, failed to do her best in important matches. Last fortnight Sarah Palfrey beat U. S. Champion Helen Jacobs...