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...That was the day when Freshmen were men and every proctor carried a sub-machine gun. The U. T., as a precautionary measure, employed a bouncer who was pitcher on the Varsity baseball team and tipped the scales at 220. He was assigned to "take care" of the bathtub-gin addicts and his life was a busy...
...Bathtub gin, riots, and actresses may come and go, but the University Theatre carries on its crusade against the vices of college and day by day converts to the sweeter, the pleasanter, the movie-going Way of Life...
Headed by R. Llewelln Brill '42, a reformed toper of note, the Prohibitionists plan to use revival methods to secure converts from gutters and rathskellers and to gather them behind the local Party slogan, "No More Gin: No More...
Died. William A. Barns, 113, ex-slave reputed to be the Civil War's oldest veteran; in San Francisco. Negro Barns, whose age was corroborated by Army records, claimed that he ran away to join the Union forces, attributed his longevity to "gin and pork chops...
...section-gang job. But by chapter two the reader finds that there is little Steinbeck in this chronicle of adversity: Faith in the Saints supports Mama Garcia in preserving her Pedro's self-respect, her large brood's health and virtue. Pedro lacks Faith, succumbs to relief, gin, a jalopy. So Concha leaves him, tries alone to support her niños by toil, Faith and scheming. Primitive instinct at last leads her back to Pedro for reconciliation...