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...hope it is not too late to suggest this latest solution for all those dateless gents among you re the Regimental Ball scheduled for tomorrow night. The King-Kclker-Kilgore trio facilitated the whole situation by "contacting" the behind-the-counter girls at the local department stores. We are told there are excellent remnants remaining in the lingerie department of Filene's Burgain Basement for interested late comers...
This week appeared the ninth and cleverest of these jobs: Art Without Epoch, an anthology of 140 examples of "dateless" art from the past 4,000 years. Picked for their impact on the modern eye, Compiler Ludwig Goldscheider's exhibits will be much more fun for most laymen than a walk through the Louvre. An Egyptian mummy portrait* (see cut) done about 200 A. D. looks like the work of a modern illustrator, tricks of brushwork, pretty lifelikeness and all. A Greek idol from 2,000 B. C. is obviously nothing but abstract sculpture. More than...
...William J. Filbert, bald, popeyed, secretive master of Steel's endless columns of statistics. Presumably he was 70, Steel's compulsory retirement age, since it was inconceivable that Mr. Filbert would quit voluntarily. One of the few ascertainable dates in Mr. Filbert's virtually dateless career is 1881, the year he went to work for Chicago & North Western Ry. By 1901 when the Steel Corp. was founded, Mr. Filbert was already marshalling facts & figures in one of the component companies. A legendary figure listed in neither Social Register nor Who's Who, he has been sitting...
...Dateless Nights...
Northwestern is to take less heroic measures to the same effect. Representatives of the fraternities and other groups of male students have agreed to join the young women of the university in celebrating three dateless nights in each week. The colloquialism " dateless " is not to be understood in the poetic sense. The young men are said to expect a resultant advance in scholarship and, incidentally, more conference championships...