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Wherever Lieut. General Sir Montagu George North Stopford led his XXXIII Corps last week, his flock of ducks went also. Every mess tent had its complement of parrots and parakeets. But even the Fourteenth's men thought last week that a sergeant had reached the ultimate. His new pride & joy was a 10-ft. python, maintained in sheer defiance of Hilaire Bellocs advice on pets: "A python, I should not advise; it needs a doctor for its eyes, and has the measles yearly...
...period when Mother Advocate has deserted her flock, when the Guardian is a publication remembered by but a few, when even Lampy has regressed to reprinting smatterings culled from his yesteryears, the CRIMSON'S war-baby, the SERVICE NEWS, continues to keep its readers abreast of the faltering goings-on about the University. It now represents the only major undergraduate organization which has maintained its continuity of tradition...
...said: "For two or three nights there won't be any women in here. Then a flight of planes will be grounded at the airport. Honestly, I believe the place fills up with women before the wheels touch ground. Or maybe they listen to the weather reports and flock in when it's ceiling zero...
Earnest tourists who flock by the thousand each year to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art often enter the vast lobby, gaze in awe at the sweep of marble stairway and ask: "Where is the art?" Only those who carry a map and compass can be sure of finding their way through the Metropolitan's 325,811 sq. ft. of sprawling galleries, which house the most diverse collection of art objects in the world today...
...becomes a breathless, round-the-town, round-the-clock jamboree. With the other two sailors picking off girls en route, On the Town sings and dances, joshes and handsprings its way from Central Park to the Museum of Natural History, from Carnegie Hall to Times Square, from a flock of night spots to Coney Island. Wherever it goes, uptown or down, it shoves dullness off the curbstone...