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Bingham's agents are annual actors on the Yale weekend scene. Tickets for this year's classic are selling for as much as $25 a pair, but the HAA chief is out to hold this ducat traffic to a minimum. Arrests in the past, however, have been small
Student ticket purchasers and H.A.A. Manager Frank Lunden lined up in directly opposing camps yesterday as the students complained of snail's-pace service and Lunden expressed satisfaction at the speed and efficiency of the H.A.A. ducat-selling process...
Thayer picked 729, which was within two numbers of the correct figure, 731, written on the back of ducat to the dance. Most of the yardlings were suspicious of a hoax of one sort or another, and only about 300 of them took a chance...
Like Professor Potts, Scriptwriters Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder took time out for research. Among the oddities they unearthed was one"Muggsy" Meyers, race-track tout, who refers to himself as a "ducat hustler." From Muggsy and associated sources, the scripters found to their dismay that in 1941's "jellybean jargon" a country boy was no longer a yokel, but a "loose tooth"; a dollar, no longer a buck, had become a "banger"; "cooking with gas" meant perfect understanding...
...will be for personal use, it is stamped in order to comply with a government statute. In the event that the tickets are sold to an outsider, obviously not a Harvard man, the sale may be detected by the fact that an outsider couldn't legally obtain a stamped ducat...