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...students left a House smoker at 10 p.m. and spilled into the Dunster courtyard, where they gave cheers, burned lighter fluid, and played football. The disturbance was spreading to Memorial Drive when an M.D.C. patrol car arrived...
...Witty Bros. announced it will make 100% Dacron summer-weight suits to sell for $95 in about 60 stores all over the U.S., including San Francisco's Roos Bros., Boston's Kennedy's, Kansas City's Palace Clothing Co. Suits made from Dacron are lighter and cooler than summer-weight wool, will not wrinkle, stretch or fade; the crease in the trousers can only be removed with a hot iron. Last summer, Witty made experimental suits for 200 test customers. One man accidentally tumbled out of a canoe while wearing his Dacron suit; after hanging...
Lost & Found. Off Pensacola, Fla., Chief Machinist Mate Dilbert D. Woolworth dropped his cigarette lighter into the Gulf, five minutes later got it back from a 15-lb. grouper hooked by his fishing companion...
...Edward Snow and Eric Sollee, played their parts with a passion which the Italian temperament calls for, the play came sharply to life, as it did not during the wordy, heavy first act. The playwright might do well for a time to use her talent for witty dialogue in lighter vehicles until she comes to command a surer grasp of the difficulties of character and situation...
...simple strategy for the race called for "fast foot" from the start. Within the first minute, the longer (by 14 in.) and lighter (by 40 Ibs.) Cambridge shell jetted to the lead at a 42-stroke-a-minute clip. Harvard fell gradually behind. According to Coach Bolles's strategy, his crew was to conserve its strength at first, catch up with Cambridge in an all-out final sprint. But by the time Harvard made its bid, the smooth-stroking Cambridge "fast foot" had run away with the race. The blue-tipped oars of Cambridge flashed across the finish line...