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...fever was everywhere, and every act seemed to fan the flames in another place. Fifteen hundred Chicago Negroes picketed a cemetery that had refused to cremate one of their race. In Michigan, a resort shut down when 50 pickets arrived with signs charging segregation there. In Baltimore, eight people went to jail after picketing a segregated amusement park...
Hayes called the Council's attention to "the great battle over another building next to the Cambridge Common two years ago." He stated that the castle "may even be far worse than that building." Hayes was referring to John Bristol Sullivan's plan to construct a fifteen story building on stilts over part of Harvard Square. The Sullivan plan was strongly opposed by Harvard...
Making films about World War II is like concocting compounds in organic chemistry. There are roughly half a dozen entertaining ways to kill a soldier, nine or ten basic acts of Nazi inhumanity, perhaps fifteen kinds of heroism in combat, and at least a hundred bits of cliched battle dialogue. To put together a new movie, the writer and director have only to choose several ingredients from each grouping. Allowing for duplications, countless combinations can be made. Very few are worth the trouble...
...When somebody suggested that the whole series was so much swill, Newhall replied with a question: "Is coffee more important than Berlin?" He answered himself: "It is. Fifteen years from now, people will have forgotten what happened in Berlin on such and such a day, but they sure as hell won't have forgotten about coffee...
...objectionable not merely because it was in bad taste. There were, in fact, several reporting errors in this story, mistakes which would indicate that this reporter was perhaps not even in attendance at the game. For example, Mr. Ruge should know that pitcher Joyce struck out fourteen not fifteen Crimson hitters. Furthermore, the Crusader hurler did not strike out four men in succession on two different occasions during the game. Moreover, Mr. Ruge might be better informed if he knew that Terry Bartolet, not Dick Diehl is captain of varsity baseball. . . . William W. Cutler III '63 Manager, varsity baseball...