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...Tabloid journalism would never get off the ground without such quotes, and such ears for them as smooth, chain-smoking David Buckley Charnay's. Newsman Charnay, 34, is a quiet fellow whom people like to confide in. He went to Public School 184, Walter Winchell's alma mater, and matriculated, like Winchell, on Broadway...
...Operation. The operation is delicate. The surgeon cuts two openings in the skull, one on each side above the temples, removes each bone button (to be replaced later), cuts and folds back the brain covering, the dura mater, then carefully slices through a measured section of the frontal lobes' white tissue. As the knife cuts the nerve fibers, the patient's tension visibly relaxes. He grows confused, dull, slow in speech, childish...
...Harvard system to class a man as part of Harvard, as of that controversial genus harvardi viri, long before the awarding of the degree. It is typical of the alumni setup at Harvard, which is, in every way, mature, highly sober and reflects the conservatism of the alma mater...
...ranks are filled by Harvard's diverse post-war recruits, the alumni will expand into even greater areas geographically and socially. The activities will mirror the serious devotion of men who have embodied about their own alms mater respect and concern for high standards in education. The depth and scope of this interest, which goes beyond nostalgia and memories, is, perhaps, the true sign of the Harvard...
...difficulties that have left the College without a literary magazine may be cleared this evening when the trustees of the Advocate come together in New York City to decide the immediate future of Mater Advocate, which ceased publication in the summer...