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...victories. But only six of these will get a major H. The rest will have to console themselves with minor letters as recognition of their effort. For under Harvard's unique and cobweb-hung system, not those who compete, but only those who place against Yale earn a full emblem. A man can be one of the two best on his squad in an event, and still not display the big award. It takes at least fifteen men to play a football game, and they all get their letter, win or lose. To swim the nine events in a regular...
...Surprise Party's platform is redwood trimmed with "nutty" pine; its emblem is a kangaroo for Leap Year (see cut). She has a song which goes: Vote for Gracie To "win the Presidential racie. . . . Vote for Gracie, Keep voting all day long...
...with the hammer-&-sickle of Soviet Russia and U. S. Communism lowered down from the flies above the auditorium stage, over Mr. Lewis' head. Angry delegates leaped from their seats. To puzzled Mr. Lewis, who did not see the flag, a convention secretary passed a note. The offensive emblem was removed. "It appears," said Mr. Lewis, whose union has long barred known Reds, "that someone attempted to perform a most cowardly, reprehensible and dastardly trick...
...from Manhattan's black Harlem. Said Mr. Colmer, who as district attorney once saved a Negro killer from a mob: "Of course, this bill will pass the House. . . . And I think I can see again . . . the plumed knight of the black people . . . astride a great white steed. ... an emblem of purity. ... All honor to the champion of Harlem. All hail the great white chieftain of the black man!" Contemptuous Joe Gavagan retorted with a newspaper account of the doings in Mr. Colmer's Mississippi, with particular reference to Guardsmen mobilized to prevent a lynching...
...Lunatic Narcissus" reveals a bare-breasted girl, her face caged with roses, her image multiplied by mirrors. > "The Beach of Gala Salvador" exhibits, against a Dali landscape embellished with exploding giraffes, many a famed surrealist emblem: the erotic white gramophone with a woman's high-heeled foot coming out of the horn; watches flattened out like flabby pancakes; "The Aphrodisiac Vampire," with the head of a tiger and a body studded with pony glasses; "The Ex quisite Corpse," its head and neck a curved umbrella handle, its chest a wooden chest, its thighs made of saucepans, its curved piano...