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Lawrence is one of some 15 alumni who have written to the "Alumni Bulletin" in recent months protesting the "downright shabby, shoddy, and shameful" state of Memorial Hall at the present time. "Fashions in architecture come and go," wrote Gordon Allen '98 in one of these letters, "but neglect of historic buildings, and this is one, is not to be condoned in a great university...
...city problem, and directs its efforts to a noticeable extent at educating rather than parking its students. The city officials, who suggest that the Square is occasionally congested, feel that the University really ought to consider students' transportation along with their matriculation. Sullivan claims that the University is downright uncooperative in this respect...
...Gunther's chief qualities is his tourist's knack for relating the far-off to the familiar. Thus, the muffled women of Tangier are like "wads of Kleenex," while some native chiefs remind him of Chicago ward heelers. Often he exaggerates and occasionally he is downright naive, but when it comes to picturesque details, Reporter Gunther has them all. "Giraffes," he reports from East Africa, "intertwine their necks when making love." And he is equally informative on human marriage customs...
...book clears up the Communist meaning of hooliganism and offers an engaging illustration (see cut), but the reader might still wish to know how an Irish patronymic became the eponym for such an apparently large group of Soviet scofflaws, uncultured types and downright gangsters. Its derivation may be traced to Marx's class-conscious habit of referring to his working-class critics as "Lumpenproletariat, scum, sweepings...
Clean Hands, Empty Ashtrays. Can Frank Sinatra keep on going? If it were only a question of public appeal, there would be no question. But it is also a matter of character, and Frank Sinatra is one of the most delightful, violent, dramatic, sad and sometimes downright terrifying personalities now on public view. The key to comprehension, if comprehension is possible, lies perhaps in one of the rare remarks that Baritone Sinatra has made about himself. "If it hadn't been for my interest in music," he once wrote, "I'd probably have ended in a life...