Word: feste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Circus Saints and Sinners monthly luncheon gag-fest in Manhattan, Vice President Alben Berkley cheerfully put on a cap & gown and gracefully accepted a few new "honorary" degrees, including a P.H.D. (for Poor Honest Democrat), a B.S. (for Bourbon & Soda), a D.D.T. (for Doing the Darndest for Truman...
...provisions of the wager and the inspiration, itself, were worked out before the examination period, and the bettors waited two weeks before beginning the contest. The idea came from a bull session discussion of two Russian yogis who engaged in such a slug-fest 150 years ago, according to Robert Ripley The yogis allegedly had banged away for 72 hours without moving from their original position, the local rendition was performed in several different chairs and postures...
Judges will be Dean Marshal, Publicity Director Joan Projansky, and Margaret Hankins '52, president of choral. The Harvard Band will blast its way through the fest, and the Dunster Dunces will be on hand for more virile songs...
Gwendolyn Brigham '53 and Ann Burkett '54 will direct the Radcliffe Song Fest next month, it was announced yesterday. The traditional song contest will be held October...
...Illinois was simply launching, for the fourth year in a row, its annual Festival of Contemporary Arts. Before the festival is over, the university expects to play host to 30,000 people-not a big crowd for a homecoming football game, but a big gathering for a culture fest on Illinois' eastern plain...