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...Your refusal, in spite of earlier promises, to give any publicity at all to the important fact that Harvard University students were both direct and indirect beneficiaries of the Red Feather Community Fund in either your advance story on the College Combined Charities Drive (10/25/50), or in your story on the opening day of the drive (10/31/50). (The three buried lines in your later editorial (11/1/50) were wholly ineffective, not merely because they came after most of your readers had already made up their minds, but also because you were entirely too brief to summarize fairly the written statement...
...Famechon, the fast French feather weight, dazzled Archie Devino in Madison Square Gardon lost night before he finally stopped Devino with a TKO in 2:48 of the seventh round...
...years ago, big (200 lbs., 6 ft. 1 in.) Otto Graham, onetime Northwestern halfback, was the first man hired. Brown has a ready, if unconventional, explanation for his choice: "He was an All-America basketball player, a playmaker." Instead of flattening his receivers with bullet throws, Graham likes to feather the ball at them. His theory: "Hand it to 'em high, and let 'em run under it." In four years in the old All-America Conference, Graham completed more than 50% of his passes. With 114 completions out of 221 so far this year, he is right...
Over $25,000 has been given so far to the Red Feather drive by teachers and employees at the University, vice-Dean Livingston Hall announced to drive-workers at a luncheon yesterday...
There are only two student groups listed among the eight: Phillips Brooks House and the Salzburg Seminar, both peculiar to Harvard. But three of the other charities provide direct benefits to students, including the Red Feather community fund, which last year provided over $17,000 for medical expenses of Harvard students in Boston hospitals...