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...late, has been Speaker Saltonstall. So fortunate a fish wouldn't have swum away of itself. Somebody from the gallery prigged it on Wednesday. The ingenious Cantabrigians of The Lampoon and The CRIMSON were at once suspected. There is talk of a youth carrying a long box with Easter lilies sticking out from one end; of other youths smelling of liquor. But codfish begets thirst. Were these the lads to seek an appetizer? With great acumen the police searched the waters of the Charles River Basin, apparently under the impression that the Sacred Cod had transformed himself into a flying...
There were strange goings-on at Philadelphia's proud Academy of Music one afternoon last week. The stage was apparently deserted but emanating from it like phantom music came the shimmering sounds of Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter, reproduced as faithfully as if the Philadelphia Orchestramen were sitting in their accustomed places, the violins down front on the left of the stage, the brasses farther back on the right, with cymbals, bells and kettledrums behind. There were other weird happenings that afternoon. Footsteps sounded spookily on the empty stage. Voices were heard asking for hammers and saws...
...Sing Sing Prison, the lilies on the chapel's altar at Easter services had been grown by Convict Owen ("Owney") Madden, famed Manhattan beer baron...
Some 5,000 residents and Easter visitors watched Tommy Adair and 149 other less well-bred dogs straggle crookedly down the resort city's wide boardwalk. An American Legion band blared martially while the dogs tugged or were tugged by small owners who had entered them in Ocean City's second annual Mutt Show. Proudly heading the line ambled an ingratiating, yellowish mongrel named Hobo Ocean City who makes the boardwalk his year-round home. Barred from competition because he was champion Mutt last year, he was chosen host this year...
...university dances it was forbidden to drink. To enter the ballroom one was obliged to swear that he had drunk no spirits since noon. This pledge was kept remarkably inviolate by the young gentlemen of Virginia. Last week, as an experiment, the University honor committee lifted the pledge during Easter week dances, because it "is considered a misapplication of the principles of honor; and the necessity for such a pledge is a reflection upon our conceptions of gentlemanly conduct...