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In a statement which laid waste many students' plans, Miss Ann Brodell, Radcliffe '49, spokesman for the dormitory's social committee, announced that the first Jolly-up would, however, definitely be held next Thursday evening.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cabot Hall Jolly-up Remote but Certain | 7/11/1947 | See Source »

Exercising both the democratic system and the mid-Australian ballot, the so-odd girls at Cabot Hall last night voted to hold a jolly up for interested males this coming Saturday.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Referendum in Cabot Places Jolly-up Sometime Saturday | 7/8/1947 | See Source »

Reactivated: H. L. Mencken, Baltimore's oldest volcano; by Columnist Earl Wilson, who interviewed him. The volcano showed its age; the new rumblings were as sensationally noisy as the outbursts of the '20s, but now they sounded a lot more hollow: "I'm in favor of war...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 30, 1947 | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

When Marie Powers was five, an opera singer asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up. Said Marie: "I want to be fat, jolly and an opera singer like you." Today, fortyish, buxom Marie Powers is doing what was once considered impossible: making opera go over on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Contralto on Broadway | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

For one jolly-boating-weather day last week, Britain's hard-pressed aristocracy forgot their troubles and the Labor Government, put on their fanciest duds, and turned out en masse on the broad banks of the Thames at Eton. They were there to celebrate the 500th birthday* of Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Old Schools | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

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