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...upper crust. Nobody without money, blue blood, or both gained membership in the secret men's clubs or "krewes"* which staged them. Before 1900 there were only five clubs: Comus, Momus, Twelfth Night, Rex and Proteus. They culled guest lists with pernickety care, asked only the fairest of debutantes to serve as carnival queens. But times changed. The socially ambitious began forming their own krewes...
...sure shot, he must play on a winning team which has a major schedule. If he is a standout player, that helps too. But great talent on a poor team will get a man almost nowhere. And the pickers could not be blamed for that: the fairest way of measuring an All-America was to judge his feats by the quality of his opposition...
According to the News, the nicest man in the College is not even a Harvard man. He is Theodore Ropp, visiting lecturer from Duke University, who asked the monitors to put "the fairest flowers" right in front of him in the first rows...
...half-humorous, half-serious accusatory darts. The fact is that it was the system, and not the enforcement, which drew the darts; and to be justified, those complaints should have been made a month or more ago. Once a system has earned tacit approval by lack of opposition, the fairest thing is to carry it out as announced...
...three members of the NLRB (Chairman Paul M. Herzog, John M. Houston, James J. Reynolds Jr.) answered a summons to the White House. After an hour's talk, they issued a statement: "The debate is over. . . . This board will. . . give the new act the fairest and most efficient administration that lies in its power...