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...liberal in the country, but the Suzy Affair changed things considerably. That was a scandal of consequence; in its wake a shocked administration abolished weekday visiting hours. But in New Haven, where girls must be imported from the hinterlands, it's the weekend that counts. Yale men may still entertain women guests in their rooms on weekends, from 11 a.m. till midnight on Friday and Saturday, and until 7 on Sunday. Sign-ins don't exist, and enforcement is laughable...
Brown and Columbia have practically no hours at all. Brown students may entertain girls in their rooms from one until 6 on Sunday afternoons if they observe tiresome rules requiring doors to be ajar and at least three out of four feet to be on the floor. The same rules apply to Columbia, where women may visit for three hours on alternate Sundays. Brown almost got daily parietals last May, but students rioted on the eve of a corporation meeting called to consider the proposal. The corporation, annoyed, tabled the question indefinitely. Unlike their colleagues at Brown, Columbia men have...
Wallace injected himself into the current Harvard parietals controversy. During his press conference, one reporter asked him if forbidding Harvard students to entertain women in their bedrooms would involve a question of civil rights...
...soldiers never die, and Marlene Dietrich, 58, hardly fades at all. So when 5,000 veterans of Viscount Montgomery's El Alamein campaign got together in London for a reunion, who better to entertain the troops than the old desert queen herself? Flying in from rainswept Paris, Marlene left reporters gaping as she appeared in a fawn-hued raincoat, tall black boots with giant handbag to match-and a slouch-brimmed sou'wester. Having carried that off, she later headed for the show rehearsal in wrist-to-ankle blue jeans. But no need to fret, chaps. By show...
Today the Yalies entertain Colgate and only a fool would place money on the outcome. That is not to say Yale shouldn't win--it should. Obviously. But Colgate has had some good moments, and Yale may have several bad ones left, so this one has to rate as a toss...