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Sally Rand also figured is the Tribune story. Charging leftist activity among students, Fulton told how the fan dancer's speech against Communism gad been heckled at this year's Freshman Smoker...
...handsome deb Sir Gladwyn Jebb At Lake Success Has made a mess Of that Smart Alec Whose name is Malik. How Uncle Joe Must hate the show-His bright boy beaten, By Gad, by ETON...
...House has illustrated an apparently common fallacy--that there is a scale of quality among the Houses. There appears to be a widespread belief among freshmen at least that certain Houses rank at the bottom of a College-wide caste system. One pictures the word sweeping around the Union: "Gad man, don't go to Leverett, it hasn't got a tower." Of course it might just as well be the size of courtyards, but this season it is towers, so hundreds of freshmen gallop off to beat on other portals...
...their tooth & nail fight against nationalization of their industry (TIME, Aug. 29), Britain's leading sugar refiners, Tate & Lyle, were helped by a champion as ubiquitous and eloquent as Colonel Blimp ("Gad, sir, the Americans should be forced to pay us the money we owe them!") or long-nosed, war-born Mr. Chad ("Wot, no bacon & eggs?"). The free-enterprise champion was Mr. Cube, a personable lump of sugar invented by a 30-year-old ex-newspaperman and psychological warfare expert named Roy Hudson. On millions of sugar cartons, thousands of posters, pamphlets and ration-book covers, Mr. Cube...
Swift Nicks, another highwayman "invented and perpetrated," according to Miss de la Torre, "the first faked alibi on record." He robbed a gentleman at Gad's Hill near London at 4 in the morning, and by hard riding reached York (180 miles away) in the afternoon; "put off his Boots and riding Cloaths, and went dress'd as if be had been an Inhabitant of the Place to the Bowling-green," where he asked the Lord Mayor what time it was. Later a jury acquitted him, on his lordship's swearing to his alibi. King Charles...