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This huge Unionist victory was due in no small part to a continuous campaign of vilification of the North, conducted in the Republic south of the border. "How can I hold out the hand of friendship [to Eire] when [she has] a dagger in one hand, a pistol in the other, and a jemmy in her pocket?" complained the North's Prime
...example of some the best in college humor is "At the Pleasure XXII." It treats, with outlandish seriousness, the recent Fisher Affair with its "Cloak and Dagger" aspects. The author presents some imaginary notes from the diary of the harried undergraduate underground organizer. "Wednesday. Enervated this morning. I think I am being poisoned by my enemies . . . To Students' Clinic in Hygiene Building, where examined after registering under false name . . . Retired early. Arranged some pillows to appear like sleeping form in my bed, spent the night on floor underneath...
...ballyhoo about the charm of Atlantis is completely lost on the screen. All that shows up are dingy rooms, some standard modern dance routines that are supposed to be pagan rituals, several hooded cloak and dagger men, and Maria Montez. Unless you consider Maria Montez the most fascinating women who ever lived, which I do not, the Atlantic image falls let. Miss Montez carefully avoids any acting and just stares blankly like a hungry cow. She seeks charm by making her clothes from veils and by using a Spanish accent, but Jean Pierre Aumont triumphs completely in the battle...
...Grande Bretagne's guests were put under surveillance, employees were questioned, "incoming parcels were screened. Despite his pooh-poohs, Van Fleet was escorted on his way to & from his office by two bodyguards. Finally one of the hotel's house dicks, studying the note, recognized the dripping dagger as the emblem of a gang he had encountered before. In 15 minutes its members were rounded...
Bingham is the HYRC member at whom Robert C. Fisher '51, NSA delegate, levelled several charges when Fisher resigned from the HYRC last December. The accusations stated that Bingham headed a "Cloak and Dagger Department" which was run in a "Machiavellian atmosphere...