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...militant anti-intellectualism now abroad in the land. Yet the editorial page of your issue of the twenty-third displays this very tendency: as one has perhaps always suspected, the CRIMSON's left hand has no idea of what the right hand is about. For Mr. Halberstam, in his review of the latest Advocate, is simply proclaiming from the Senate floor, so to speak, that it is not very good. If Mr. Halberstam did not like the issue, he might tell us why with some specific criticism, rather than simply indulging in generalities: to cry pointless at every story...
Certainly any story appearing in the Advocate's pages might be criticized, but there is no reason why this cannot be done intelligently; no reason why we should not be told wherein and in what way the author is at fault. Mr. Halberstam makes the attempt in his discussion (sic) of the Hoagland story, but he does not try again. Rather, he asserts that the Cumming story cannot structurally stand by itself; and proves his point by mentioning imagery in one of Cumming's sentences (!) He furthermore groups Sean Sweeney's stories with the poetry, says he "plays with words...
...B.P.S.S.F., composed of writers from the Globe, Traveler, Alumni Bulletin, Herald, and CRIMSON, lashed out for its only touchdown midway through the third period. Dave Halberstam intercepted a John Kelso pass, and returned it to the manager's 14. After a Dick Kline to Hiller Zobel pass clicked to the seven, Mike Halberstam went off left end to score...
After telling all good Democrats to vote for Adlai Stevenson, he left as the crowd stood and cheered. Outside he said he was very happy about the people, and about the day. He refused to tell whether he would do it again. MICHAEL. J. HALBERSTAM and PHILIP M. CRONIN
Another CRIMSON editor, David L. Halberstam '55, claimed that he had been kneed in the groin by one policeman after that officer had failed to catch a photographer he had been chasing...