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...paints our educators as Caspar Milquetoasts who are afraid of their own shadows. One of the prerequisites of the teaching profession used to be moral courage; another used to be intellectual honesty . . . Marxists can have moral courage, as the victims of Stalinist purges have demonstrated. But our "pinko-to-magenta" pedagogues are completely lacking in moral courage; they appear to be neither fish (democrats: believers in government by the people) nor fowl (Marxists: believers in government by misanthropy...
...whole nasty, hap-hazard business started on January 24, 1873, when a group of juniors produced the first issue of a semi-weekly journal called "The Magenta" (it became The CRIMSON two years later when the College's official color was changed). The tiny, 8 x 10 inch Magenta was primarily a literary magazine which relied heavily on the essay and ran about two poems per issue. It did print College news, however, and in 1878 added an athletic column and a "sporting editor...
...Eisenhower looked shockingly old. His blond hair and eyebrows tended to disappear. Walter Tibbals, a veteran TV executive, had Ike's eyebrows touched up and tinted his face with make-up (not, initially, without a struggle), hung a grey curtain"behind him, and lighted him with magenta spots. But the general's big new dark-rimmed spectacles were his own idea-"If you have to wear glasses," Winston Churchill once told him, "make a prop out of them...
...small band that started out with "The Magenta" has grown in size until it now includes more than 1,000 loyal editors throughout the country. The CRIMSON takes this opportunity to greet them, and thank them for their many contributions...
Last week, tricked out in a yellow and pink garden dress, picture hat and orange and magenta feather boa, Puerto Rico pursued a hapless, grinning amateur into the wings. Then he laid his pistol down. Out onto the stage stepped one of the most famed alumnae of the Apollo amateur hour: bosomy, nimble-voiced Ella Fitzgerald...