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Some could not believe at first that the news was true. Example: many Swedes telephoned Stockholm newspapers to protest that the times were too serious for playing April Fool jokes in the headlines. Even the Communists were perplexed. Example: after years of obediently denouncing NATO as "aggressive . . . warmongering . . . imperialist," editorialists for East German newspapers stumbled all over themselves trying to explain why the Kremlin was suddenly applying for NATO membership and inviting the American imperialists into the peace-loving proletarian camp...
...written only be cause "I didn't have anything better to write about," and was sent out two days before the briefing. It was set in type in many papers before the hydrogen film Was shown to other newsmen. Snapped Pear son : "Just because I pulled an April Fool scoop on them is no reason for their accusations." Actually, Pearson's column caused no excitement in newspaper offices when it came in. Almost all of his syndicate customers ran it in its usual position far back in the paper...
...fill 70% of its quota with first choice applicants. The remainder of the space would have to be filled with second and third choice applicants sent along from those not accepted by the first choice House. As is witnessed by several Houses today, this method is far from fool-proof in avoiding preponderance of students with similar backgrounds and interests from congregating in the same House...
Died. Charles Yale Harrison, 55, newspaperman turned author (Nobody's Fool), best known for his bestselling pacifist novel, Generals Die in Bed (1930); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...Backus, a spindly-framed youngster, was washed out of the Army Air Corps because he was underweight. Home again to Long Island, Backus got his back up and went to work with bar bells to build muscle and weight. He also began to fool around with the 35-lb. weightthrow, a track & field event normally reserved for bulge-bellied giants-in fact, the weight men are commonly called "whales." At Tufts College, Backus, still slim but taking on weight, became a better-than-average weight-thrower, but he was always in the shadow of his roommate Tom Bane...