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Other Masters, like jolly school teachers, find only a certain whimsical humor in the supposition that any sane, intelligent undergraduate would want to live outside the amenable ivy walls of their domains. They seem puzzled, and try to figure out what whims of motivation could be making certain students act...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coincidental Intelligence | 10/22/1958 | See Source »

The play concerns a rich playboy on trial for shooting his wife in the backside; his defense is that before the revolver went off, as he was cleaning it, he had drunk two bottles of whisky. After a prosecution doctor testifies that no one could drink that much without passing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Oct. 20, 1958 | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

Rope and Chains. It was not that the Prime Minister had gone unduly democratic. Always the courtly squire in the artistocratically rumpled suit, he responded to crowds with a wave that seldom took his arm above his shoulder, and they liked him for not trying to be what he was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Way of the Squire | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

The Radcliffe social season will continue with a jolly-up tonight at Moors Hall. There will be five more in the current series, which will last until late October. The others are:

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Jolly-Ups | 10/8/1958 | See Source »

Women, Muscle Men, Sophisticated Ivy League, Jolly, Scrambled Egghead.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The People Getters | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

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