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...declared out of the Derby. ROUGH 'N TUMBLE, the California champion, was on the shelf with splints. Greentree's well-liked BIG STRETCH had been publicly embarrassed in a Keeneland prep when an upstart named RUHE gave him a three-length beating. Out in Nevada, some legalized handbook players were still contemplating the 30-to-1 odds offered against the chances of BILL BAILEY, a horse that died last month in Hot Springs, Arkansas...
These fads may extend to an item of dress or a haircomb, but they usually are limited to an action or a turn of speech. To facilitate the use of a community slang, the Student Handbook this year printed three pages of slang expressions covering more general campus needs...
...Margaret Fitzgerald '52; Orientation, Phebo Crampton '52; Publicity, Elizabeth Fleischner '54 and Ruth Jacobson '52; Community Service, Mary Jane Wade '52 and Phyllis Watt '54; Health Center, Ellin Louria '52; Social, Rachel Mellinger '52; Student Employment, Pamela Huntsman-Trout '52. The new editor of the Red Book, the student handbook, is Gloria Wagstaff...
Died. Porter Sargent, 78, Boston's Brooklyn-born, pleasantly eccentric critic of education, who poked at educators' weak spots in his annual Handbook of Private Schools; after an operation; in Boston. In his hit-or-miss way, he denounced snobbery, prudishness, convention, academism, alumni influence, regimentation, kept his scholastic audience-"scared prostitutes, pimps and panderers" -always amused, often edified. He thought Alma Mater in general was a "flatulent old bawd," said of his own in particular: "Harvard practically ruined...
...took the stand to testify that the information collected had indeed been passed on to the agents of Soviet Russia. As precisely and matter-of-factly as a high-school teacher explaining a problem in geometry, he laid out an account of his adventures that could serve as a handbook for espionage...