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...secret that they were privately counting on the Cabinet to furnish some of their best bets. One was Princeton-bred, Wall Street-trained Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, who some day might be Secretary of National Defense. He was geographically perfect, ideologically sound, would add tone to the ticket. His big drawback was that he had never even run for dogcatcher...
...Prep School of Cambridge will furnish the opposition for Moe Berg's Yard-ling baseball team today at 4 o'clock on Soldiers Field, while the Jayvees travel to Dudley to take on Nichols Junior College in the second game of a home-and-home series...
...fruit, cheese and fish, his recreations walking and sailing, his routine "of an even, grey-paper character." "He [lives]," complained one of his friends, "in a state of disgraceful indifference to everything, except grass and fresh air. . . . Half the self-sacrifice . . . the moral resolution, which he exercises . . . would amply furnish forth a martyr or a missionary. His tranquillity is like a pirated copy of the peace...
Joining the College contingent will be five women selected from local colleges. Smith College will furnish two of the female representatives with other allocations yet to be made...
...convenience of its location, Yardlings will make up their minds within the next few weeks to spend the next few years, not in a House of the type President Lowell envisaged, but more in a sort of glorified dormitory. The Houses are dormitories in so far as they furnish shelter and food; they are glorified in so far as they do so resplendently. And they are not Houses in so far as they fail, with minor exceptions, to supply any form of extra-curricular intellectual activity...