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...Sorry, girls," said undergraduate Band leader Alan S. Novick '55, "but we have a treat for Cornell." The Band arrived at Ithaca a few minutes past five the next morning. Local police were the first to greet them...
...soxers led by cheer leaders. But as Dulles climbed out of an embassy limousine, an aide explained that the youngsters had not turned out to see him off at all. They were waiting for Crooner Frankie Laine, expected on the next Paris plane. "I thought they were there to greet me," chuckled Dulles. "What a disappointment. See what fame means...
Harvard Stadium, which in the past has seen its wooden goalposts torn down after each football game at a weekly cost of $75, will greet plunder-bent students this fall with a pair of new steel posts designed to remain standing indefinitely...
...real power, has become far too human to be easily raised again to semidivine status. In the years since the war, he has grown paunchier, more stooped, and greyer at the temples. His walk more than ever resembles that of a duck. But the huge crowds who gathered to greet him with paper flags, banzais and sometimes tears in Hokkaido were not the awed, head-lowering crowds before the war. They offered Hirohito something they had never offered his ancestors-plain affection...
...Sapporo, the Emperor watched a schoolroom full of crippled children struggling painfully to their feet to greet him, and he bowed deeply to the children before they could bow to him. At Kushiro he ate the plain buckwheat noodles and mackerel of the local villagers. When his glasses needed wiping, he handed his straw hat to his Empress, who held it obediently...