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...newsmagazine embittered from perpetual scooping by the campus daily, goes by the diminutive "Indy." Kind of like indy rock. Sort of. Except not cool. The Independent's news pages capture its readership with hard-hitting stories about charity galas, graduation in June and similar breaking news. The most recent gem by their editor-in-chief is a column entitled "Why I Like Chemistry"-one man's struggle against the forces of an evil concentration. Racked by an inferiority complex, the Indy's new recruiting slogan is "once a week is good enough." So that's what they're telling people...
After that, Harvard traveled to the Palestra in Philadelphia, advertised as "the nation's most historic arena." In a dark, sweaty, gem of an arena, Harvard faced a crowd of 5,215 in an intimate setting that puts the crowd literally on top of the action. When Penn jumped out to an early lead, the crowd wanted to bury the Crimson early and let everyone know...
...then returned to his first love after commissioning Lever House, one of Manhattan's first glass skyscrapers. In the late 1960s, he inadvertently fueled a national campaign for historic preservation with his design for the Garden, a monstrosity that replaced McKim, Mead and White's steel and glass-canopied gem, Penn Station...
...shines, singing with an unaccustomed force and levity; on Just Friends he scats nimbly too. His trumpet and Getz's tenor sax are also in top form; these relaxed, lyrical players have an obvious rapport. Reportedly, they couldn't stand each other; you'd never know from this little gem of a disc...
...deceiving myself. I know I'm a long shot. The way I see it, I have about nine months to do something big, something splashy, to pull the votes my way. Something besides plastering the office walls with handmade posters that say STEIN IS FINE, JOEL'S A GEM and THE OTHER GUY CAN'T READ! Those were a major part of my last successful campaign (vice president of my high school class), but there apparently is some office rule about signs and Fun-Tak that I didn't know about...