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...week's end police were admitting privately that "some of the lads swung when they should have nodded," and collegians were excusing the cops: "They're not of the higher intelligence groups, I feel." Alumni were telling each other that the St. Patrick's hoo-ha did not measure up to the 1919 battle between college boys and parading veterans of World War I. Students were not even very mad at their prexy any longer; Whitney Griswold, who promised to kick out students for any more bad behavior, finally admitted that both sides had cause for grievance...
With the influx of 2000 girls, Hanover, N.H., temporarily loses its celibate atmosphere and begins its most strenuous attempt to live up to its fun-loving reputation. Contrary to popular rumor in the girls' school circuit, Dartmouth men are not exceptionally big drinkers or "wah-hoo-wah." Although the liquor flows from twelve noon till four a.m. (the administration prohibits drinking at any other time), Dartmouth men "can hold their liquor mighty well." Alcohol is a weekend staple...
Died. F. Hugh Herbert, 60, Vienna-born playwright (Kiss and Tell, The Moon Is Blue) and screenwriter (Sitting Pretty; Scudda Hoo, Scudda Hay); of lung cancer; in Los Angeles...
Died. Elmer Holmes Davis, 68, Hoo-sier-twanging radio news analyst, World War II head of the Office of War Information, a founding father of ADA, sometime novelist, essayist (But We Were Born Free), idealist ("It's better to be a dead lion than a live dog"); of complications following a stroke; in Washington, D.C. A Rhodes scholar who wrote personal letters in finest Latin, Davis was a longtime (1914-24) New York Times reporter and editorial writer...
...they have experienced in the early morning hours, such as sweating, fear, fright, and a depressing and pessimistic outlook on life. Your review rightfully states "a man's lifetime is invariably more than the sum of what he thinks and feels in the small, black hour of the hoo...