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...very evident that he has no idea what we have to put up with in Cambridge." Ready proposed that some member of the A.S.N.E. should come to today's trial, when the five CRIMSON editors state the stand. "This would be a wonderful way to get the first-hand story from officers on the scene", he commented...
...Truman tour covered the rooms that are ordinarily opened to the public (that morning 7,263 people filed through the White House for a first-hand look at what the TV audience saw that afternoon). As a guide should, the President spiced his information with folksy stories. The best was about Texas' late Senator Morris (18th Amendment) Sheppard and Calvin Coolidge. Once, at a White House breakfast, Sheppard was surprised to find the Coolidge collie barking at his elbow. Coolidge explained that the dog wanted Sheppard's sausage, so the Senator gave it to him. Concluded Truman with...
...Pentagon's first impulse was to throw the book at them. "A tempest in a teapot," snorted Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg. But as the proportions of the trouble became apparent last week, Vandenberg flew out to Randolph for a first-hand checkup, ordered court martial proceedings dropped in the cases of two flyers...
Jobless seniors can find first-hand information on opportunities in their region or their field in general by contacting alumni advisers in their area over spring vacation. Alexander Clark (pictured above). Director of the Office of Student Placement, said yesterday...
...first-hand advice she often goes to her sons. She is seldom asked for any in return. "But they get it anyway. They can't escape...