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Late that night burly Ann Arbor policemen shoved their way into five fraternity houses (Phi Delta Theta, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Kappa Sigma, Theta Delta Chi), wakened the torpid brothers, searched their rooms for liquor. They found 50 quarts of whiskey, gin, wine, half a case of beer. At 3 a.m. 79 students were marched off to police headquarters, charged with disorderly conduct. Except for ten Dekes ("Mother of Jollity") whom it was necessary to threaten with a "night in the coop," the 79 made little or no resistance to arrest. Chief Student Councillor Merton Bell, a Kappa...
...Representative Niland, of East Boston, that Harvard be punished by having its buildings taxed, a plea in extenuation might be offered in the fact that Harvard's "goodies" have been conventionally represented for years in the Lampoon as elderly harridans not above snitching a nip of the marster's gin. Still, even this might not be regarded in some circles as so very extenuating after all. --Baltimore...
...SALOON IN THE HOME-Ridgely Hunt & George S. Chappell-Coward-McCann ($2).* Compilers Hunt & Chappell put up a blatant front of impartiality on the Wet & Dry question. At the top of every page they reprint some moral tale or verse from some such temperance sourcebook as No Gin Today, Anecdotes from the Platform, Temperance Annual; then counter at the bottom with recipes for drinks. The scheme, more ingenious than its execution, is helped somewhat by pseudo-Victorian pseudo-engravings by Artist John Held Jr. Like all rummagings in the attic, this one recovers some rare antiques; the full version...
...used to keep extra-proof gin in his Washington golf locker to the immense satisfaction of young U. S. State Department employes...
...Recipe: one part orange juice, two of Calvados gin, one of apricot brandy, a dash of grenadine...