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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-five thousand dollars spread out among some six thousand undergraduates is hardly a gigantic sum of cash. Independent, uncoordinated, hap-hazard drives for assorted charitable organizations quite probably could extract that much from the College without untoward effort. Yet the Student Council, acting as agent for a long list of such worthy agencies, has been able to garner just a bit more than half that amount, despite a two-month campaign that will end on Sunday. Usually, seven-dollar-per-man pledges were signed by the great majority of men at registration in the fall, the money collected...
...Dewey did grapple with one issue this week. He also continued to take trips. Last week, he added to the list of things he admired: the wintry hills of Vermont and New Hampshire; the old Dewey family home in Lebanon, N.H., now occupied by Farmer Daniel E. Lahaye; Mrs. Lahaye's range; the Lahayes' year-old daughter ("She's as cute as a bug"); and the snow-covered New Hampshire cemetery where the Dewey ancestors are buried. "Old cemeteries fascinate me," he said...
...find a new commandant for the U.S. Marine Corps to succeed retiring General A. A. Vandegrift, President Truman last week delved down to the eighth name on the rank list. His man: Major General Clifton B. Gates, 54, one of the Pacific war's most brilliant island-hopping campaigners, now boss of the Marine school at Quantico...
...woman's angle" was covered with grim intensity. Because Hollywood's Cobina Wright Sr. was an old pal of the groom, Cobina got an invitation to the wedding-the only one on his list to a private U.S. citizen. She coolly capitalized on it by signing up with Hearst's International News Service. I.N.S. hardly got its money's worth. At a Palace reception, she was so overwhelmed by all that jewelry "that I can scarcely remember so much as the color or cut of a single gown...
Ballots sampling student opinion--such as the forthcoming food conservation poll--would be taken at one meal only in all dining halls. Votes requiring a check-off list would be conducted over a period of several meals...