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There is more than one way to kill a cat. The grimalkin of racial prejudice may choke on warm milk as easily as succumb to a brickbat. Unfortunately the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination seems to believe it has, in the Fair Educational Practices Act, the only weapon which can banish the beast. In ordering Harvard to stop requesting photographs with freshman application forms, it serves the letter, but not the ultimate purpose, of the law it seeks to enforce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Diligence Misguided | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...West New York, N. J., at a rubber plant, a fire occurred which destroyed the lives of 23 cats which, like the plant, belonged to one Charles Cholerton. One only of all Charles Cholerton's cats escaped; a smoky grimalkin, she came slinking from a fiery window, her eyes lit with warm red fury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Tree vs. Children | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

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