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When she came, the strippeuse spent ten minutes telling the network audience that she prefers Harvardmen to Yalies . . . and an hour and ten minutes posing for Boston and CRIMSON photographers while she carried on to the death staring contests with every gaping student whose eyes happened to cross hers...
...exertions. Army and Navy specialists, in uniform, number 2,000. President Conant and other professors commute so frequently to Washington that the New York, New Haven & Hartford R.R.'s Senator out of South Station is almost a Harvard Club car. In the last war there were 11,000 Harvardmen: the Alumni Association estimates that this one will draw 25,000. No "talent scouts" have appeared this year, as of old, from big U.S. corporations...
...While Harvardmen cheered young Tom Bolles (rhymes with goals), whose Crimson shells have won 31 out of 34 varsity races in the six years he has coached at Cambridge, Yalemen bemoaned the fact that after 20 years as varsity coach, Ed Leader will step down to become advisory coach for Eli intramural rowing...
With the Christmas oasis out of the way, Harvard is settling down to the serious business of organizing its defense and wartime services on a duration basis. The PBH-Student Council Defense Service Committee, centered at Dean Chauncey's clearing-house in University Hall, will attempt to make unaroused Harvardmen realize that "keeping calm" does not mean burying one's nose in a book or a stein of beer and forgetting that a war exists. Actually, of course, there are a few who still cling to kidding themselves, but so far the trouble has been that opportunities for volunteers were...
...Hollywood had the Harvard bug. If one actress could get free publicity by making Harvardmen look like asses, so could others. Leila Ernst made a half-hearted attempt when Hobbs placed her in Lampy's Post of Honor last winter, but the second real invasion was made by Marjorie Woodworth. This buxom blonde was trying every known means of getting her name and her picture in the papers last spring, and thanks to a shrewd and enterprising public relations man, one Bernie Kambers, she was doing right well by herself. Kambers himself decided on the Harvard angle and approached Coles...