Word: maniac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with: "the first six guys in my room get free chocolate malteds." He also invites faculty guest speakers, fills in with programs of popular records. Under the magisterial eye of Dartmouth President Ernest H. Hopkins, Broadcaster Dryfoos has to avoid records like Bruz Fletcher's Nympho-Dipso-Ego-Maniac, or She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor. Keep it clean, the administration warns...
...publicity, partly because its author is the son of novelist Sinclair Lewis. Burton Rascoe hailed it as the literary discovery of the year, but "Time" concluded its review of the hero's attempts to get him self seduced as follows: "Finally, much to everybody's relief, a rich Rympho maniac from Mauhattan takes him in hand, and Crane goes back to college with a mighty superior attitude toward freshmen...