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Wordless, he sat down next to me and deposited a great, ink-stained ledger book before him. Meditating quietly for a moment, he suddenly looked up and said, "Do you like Mr. Miller...
...Actually," he went on, "I'm a student. Stanford. But only for one more year. Notice my Palo Alto pallor." He tapped nervously on the ledger. "In here I've got over 200 original poems...
...told, are the news board, which prepares the front page; the editorial board, which formulates and writes the second page; the photo board, which enlivens what news board members have written; and the business board, which makes sure that the paper is on the right side of the ledger...
...this nefarious business is nothing new. In fact, there's a strong precedent for ledger-stuffing. Just two years ago, for instance, the fight was between Thomson and John Eldridge. By the time-honored traditional means, Thomson saved the day for his side, recruiting even apolitical persons and Democrats--proof of his high-minded, unprejudiced criteria...
...presidents, or perhaps as many as there are powerful candidates, would make gangster tactics like those used in 1954 unnecessary. Joseph Studholme, the club's office manager, was about to make an investigation of bogus membership cards distributed by one of the factions in that year's memorable ledger-stuffing maneuver. As he was leaving the club office three days before the election, the candidates for that year attacked him, wrested the sole official membership list from his person, and threatened him with physical violence unless he resigned immediately. Indeed, one may consider this an example of how candidates...