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...hair was skimpier, the waist thicker, but Comic Bob Hope, onstage at the St. Louis Municipal Opera in the Broadway role he created 25 years ago, seemed the same slat-nosed, perpetual lad with the innocent leer. Playing Huckleberry Haines, the matchmaking student bandleader of Alpha Beta Pi, in the Jerome Kern-Otto Harbach musical Roberta, Gagman Hope (aided by his writers) stuck to the creaky plot, but inserted his old vaudeville number Invitation to the Dance, convulsed the audience with typical, topical Hopela: "The President is getting off better drives -he has Sherman Adams' picture on the ball...
...last week's Pic: "I was born with a chip on my shoulder as big as an elephant." The "aunt" who raised him turned out to be his mother, who apparently refused to accept him as her son because he had no legal father. As a lad, Hume soon developed the ethic: "If you have an enemy...
...CRIMSON caused a good deal of upset among returning parents in the Class of 1933, who read that "a nine year old son" had praised his rooming accommodations. The minimum age for admission to the Reunion is ten, which is the correct age (plus three months) of the lad who spoke so vociferously Monday night...
When the Harvard Student Agencies first sprang into existence last fall, there was much talk on the part of its leaders that the new organization was conceived to aid the needy scholarship lad, that it would most certainly not compete with local Harvard Square merchants, and that it was not directly affiliated with the University. Such talk proved reassuring at the time; but with the passage of months the philanthropic organization has begun to take on the shape of a potentially large scale monopoly, which gives a rather unsavory big business appearance to the academic community...
...three things give him second thoughts. He is a "good-natured devil without hate or harm in him," and he has grievously wounded a man. Also he has discovered that his I.R.A. company commandant, the crippled village bicycle mechanic, is a malignant fanatic. Most important, Dermot is a pious lad, and the church has come down like thunder on the I.R.A...