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Philosophy A texts and additional Government tomes may be moved to the 175 seat Boylston Library, as the book jam is slowly unsnarled...
...Boss's Knee. In the 1932 Republican Convention, when the Hoover crowd was trying to jam through the vice-presidential nomination of Charlie Curtis, "a voice from the floor shouted in answer to the roll call: "Pennsylvania casts 75 votes for General Edward Martin." The vote, as everyone knew, was just a maneuver. Pennsylvania came around to Curtis when the Pennsylvania bosses got what they wanted frolri the National Committee. But it gave Ed Martin his first brief and tentative spin into the national scene...
...there was no falling off in east-to-west transatlantic travel. The backlog in Britain of Pan American and American Overseas Airlines is so.big that passengers without influence cannot book a seat for New York till the end of next February. The jam on British airlines is equally great. When passengers are bumped off planes, they frequently squat in British air terminals for days & nights until they get a plane seat...
...more spirited group of local jam session devotees are raking valiant efforts to entertain themselves. WHCN puts on several hot record shows a week including a special Battle of Jazz between the two and four beat advocates. Whether or not the program has created any serious dissensions in the student body as a whole, is not as yet known but there is a definite possibility that the Network building may split down the middle over the question. No one should betake himself to that vicinity on Friday nights without at least a steel helmet...
Whatever O'Neill's motives, he and his wife went to Manhattan last year, taking little except their toothbrushes and their big, indispensable collections of books and records (which jam two of the six rooms of their present apartment...