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...lantern procession and formal dance will be held Tuesday, June 20, as originally planned, after a reception at 8 p.m. Both reception and lantern procession will take place in the Radcliffe Yard if weather permits, and the dance will be held in Agassiz Living Room. Seniors, parents, alumnae, and friends are invited...
Though Republican leaders in Oregon wasted no love on their maverick U.S. Senator Wayne Morse, there was just no stopping him. The only real opposition that turned up against him in last week's primary was a lantern-jawed farmer from Deadwood named David I. Hoover, who had never run for office before. Hoover, an ex-deputy sheriff from Los Angeles, implied that Morse was a Communist or worse, and businessmen, lumbermen, doctors backed Farmer Hoover with wads of cash. But when the returns were in Morse had beaten Hoover by a 2-to-1 vote, and seemed virtually...
...Class Night Committee, which originally abandoned the dance and lantern procession because of lack of response, will now circulate pledges to assure that enough tickets will be bought to cover expenses. Unless approximately 260 pledges for single tickets are received, the committee will go ahead with plans...
...customers nightly. Last week, each leaning on an attendant and trying her best to walk in the traditional graceful gait of her calling, under the weight of a 6-lb. wig and suffocatingly embroidered antique costume, two of Tokyo's leading "waitresses" led a regiment of lantern-bearers, bell-ringers, apprentice prostitutes and child attendants through the ancient three-hour procession. "We're certainly not trying to revive interest in prostitution," explained a spokesman for Tokyo's procurers' association, "but we felt that since peace had come back and spring is here, we'd like...
...musical at the Colonial, "Texas, Li'l Darlin'," starts off promisingly enough. After the overture, a lantern slide of the cover of a large picture magazine, similar to "Life," is flashed upon a screen, to the accompaniment of March of Time-type music and the pontifical voice of a news commentator. The idiocyncrasies of the Luce Press are favorite sport among the satirists this season anyhow, and so--you say to yourself, perhaps--here is musical comedy's own gay potshot at grey-eyed, balding China-born Henry Luce. But disillusionment, as occasionally it must to all theatergoers, came last...