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Students may pick any of five groups to which to donate: the American Friends Service Committee, Kobe College of Japan, the National School and Service Fund for Negro Students, United Red Feather, and the Would University Service...
...away from the raccoon coat continues as the bulky great-coat of recent years gives way to lighter, weather repellent fabrics with zip-in linings. The crowning glory of the college man's hat also seems on the down grade. One style, however, the Tyrolean green alpine model with feather brush and hidden ear-muffs, is gaining popularity so quickly that one expects to hear yodels echoing from the steps of Widener...
...Wells Choreographer Frederick Ashton tied music and story together with some first-rate dance inventions. Every leap and step, gracefully tuned in the 19th century romantic mood, seemed to move the story forward. True. Sadler's ensemble work was a trifle ragged as usual, but with feather-footed Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes in the leading roles, most of the audience minded not at all. For one of the few times this season, ballet fans greeted with ovations what they long ago came to expect from Sadler's: more than their money's worth...
Captain John Smith's epitaph in St. Sepulchre's Church, London, where he lies buried, gives Pocahontas' old friend the benefit of the doubt. Succeeding generations, noting the "impossible" deeds he recounted about himself, have sometimes suspected he was a liar of extraordinary feather...
...Rolls-Royce at 70 m.p.h., drove his staff just as hard. Prankishly, he liked to take visitors on a tour of the city room, bang an editor over the head with an eight-foot plank, then rock with laughter when his guests found that the plank was made of feather-light balsa wood. On occasion, the Mirror used the slogan, "All the News You Want to Know and Which Nobody Else Will Tell You," and the paper's book column boasted: "There is no need to waste time on a boring book if you follow our selections...