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Here the six younger classes involved in the day's revelry will be converging and will vie for liveliness of garb. Tradition calls for something with dash and curiosity, often a costume idea for a specific class repeated over the years. though equally often varied as the fancy of the prime movers of each group shifts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Festivities | 6/9/1948 | See Source »

...Hawthorne formula is a well-stirred ragout of one part Henry Morgan, three parts Arthur Godfrey and a dash of Colonel Stoopnagle; it is a blend of the outrageously unexpected and the shaggy dog joke. In the middle of a recording, a voice may suddenly announce: "I've got cole slaw in all my pockets. I'm cold." Sometimes Hawthorne heckles his lovesick records. "What are you in the mood for, honey?" he will ask during the opening bars of a song. "I'm in the mood for love," the record croons back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Peachy-Keen | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Also in "The New Student" is a slap-dash attempt to prove that American universities are in the toils of Big Business, based mostly on a quasi-review of a book which appeared two years ago. And the conclusion--that students and faculty should somehow gain control of University policies--is as breezily vague as the unqualified condemnation of America's Puerto Rican "imperialism" in the article that follows. This general tone of militant outrage, coupled with the total absence of any attempt at objectivity, makes "The New Student" more of a screeching political pamphlet than an undergraduate magazine honestly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Shelf | 4/24/1948 | See Source »

...yard dash--Won by Squadrito (RIS); 2, Spivak (H); 3, Cavicke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Nine Succumbs to B.C., 6-2; Trackmen Gain R.I. State Triumph | 4/20/1948 | See Source »

...yard dash--Won by Hamblett (H); 2, Hall (RIS); 3, Dwyer (RIS). Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Nine Succumbs to B.C., 6-2; Trackmen Gain R.I. State Triumph | 4/20/1948 | See Source »

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