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...First step in the program was a streamlined assistant secretary, blonde and blue-eyed Miss Virginia Hoagland. To attract their wives as well as the younger instructors themselves, the women's suite on the second floor was refurbished. It took very little encouragement for this to become the bridge, mah jong, and gossip center of Cambridge. In return the coeds each week give some professor a chance to lecture uninterruptedly not only his own missus but his colleagues' wives as well...
...occasional meal, to browse in the largest collection of current magazines in New England, and to buy "Harvard Faculty Special Cigars" (15c a piece or 2 for 25c.) The Tomb of King Tut atmosphere is gone, and the chatter of false uppers is echoed by the clatter of mah jong tiles upstairs. There is activity at the Faculty Club-it has really become a social center for the Harvard professors and their families. For the first time since the University faculty began rivaling the French foreign legion in size and diversity, their club is performing its intended function...
...Columbia, S. C., a Negro shoplifter was arrested, unpocketed two hair brushes five watches, a bottle of perfume, eight cigars, then offered: "If you all will turn me loose I'll sho' help you find de man dat put 'em in mah pocket...
...Governor Louis Bouvin of the five minuscule colonies of French India (Pondichéry, Karikal, Chandernagor, Mahé, Yanaon; total pop. 300,353) declared their loyalty to De Gaulle...
This week Frank Broker was at work for his tribe and the State, giving rice conservation its first trial in Minnesota. At Cass Lake, at the town of Mahnomen, at many another where wild rice is sold to brokers, Chippewas and whites are celebrating the new moon of Mah-No-Men with street fairs and carnivals. Frank Broker meantime kept his eye on the wide, shallow lakes and their waving tops of grain. As in the old days, no Chippewa dared go into the fields until the tribal chieftain announced that the rice was ripe for harvest. This year Chippewas...