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...Circus Saints and Sinners monthly luncheon gag-fest in Manhattan, Vice President Alben Berkley cheerfully put on a cap & gown and gracefully accepted a few new "honorary" degrees, including a P.H.D. (for Poor Honest Democrat), a B.S. (for Bourbon & Soda), a D.D.T. (for Doing the Darndest for Truman...
Kefauver's retort was mild: "I may be a pet coon but I'll never be Mr. Crump's pet coon." A more imaginative friend clapped a coonskin cap on Kefauver's head at a luncheon rally. The gag grew until Kefauver eventually blossomed out in a coonskin cap haloed with electric lights. In the primary he polled 42,000 votes more than his nearest opponent...
...gag issue of the "Varsity" satirized the Student Council, university president Dr. Sidney Smith, certain professors, and the university in general. The main story in the issue, headed "Remedial Sex Compulsory, SAC Finances Field Work," was allegedly a satire on Smith's annual report, which dealt with remedial English...
Affairs of State combines a small cast and a single gag with intermittent sprinklings of comedy, farce, and epigrams. June Havoc carries off very well the lead role, created by Celeste Holm. She and Shepperd Strudwick alone manage to give variety to their parts without sacrificing consistency...
...bonus, this recent announcement should also gag local sportswriters who have been clamoring for a formal New England League with Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth playing B.U., B.C., and Holy Cross. There would be little room at present for all of these schools on all-Ivy schedules and furthermore the Ivy policy itself would probably appear too sugar-coated for these gate-receipt, publicity conscious colleges...