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Representatives of the University's charity drives met last night at the Faculty Club to hear arguments for supporting the Red Feather Drive of Greater Boston...
...Listen to some of them: honesty is the best policy; a man is known by the company he keeps; he that goes aborrowing, goes asorrowing; a penny saved is a penny earned; birds of a feather flock together ; I would rather be right than President. Where do we stand today-where does our Government stand when measured alongside the moral principles-the sacred honor-of our founders...
...Star Show (Sat. 10 p.m., all networks). Program for Red Feather campaign, with Dinah Shore, Groucho Marx, Danny Thomas, Loretta Young, President Harry Truman...
...marksmen gathered at Fort Ticonderoga, N.Y. were a strange-looking group, dressed in checked shirts and funny hats. One man wore a skunk pelt on his head, another sported a black sombrero with a feather stuck in the band. The firearms were out of the ordinary too: long-barreled pistols, archaic-looking rifles decorated with carvings, etched designs and inlays. They were all old-style muzzle-loaders-flintlocks or caplocks*-and the oddly hatted people were devoted muzzle-loader fans...
During their stay, according to Davis' theory, the ancient Polynesian voyagers learned many things from the highly civilized Peruvians: sun worship, a complex system of government by subchiefs, and such artistic techniques as making feather mantles. They learned how to grow sweet potatoes and taro. Then, with their new knowledge, they went back to their distant islands by the Kon-Tiki route. In the Lima archeological museum, Dr. Davis found many articles that reminded him of his ancestors...