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...welcome mat, therefore, will be dusted off again tonight at 7 o'clock and cast down before the refurbished Crimedifice at 14 Plympton Street. Freshmen will be greeted by the News and Business Boards, Sophomores by the Busy and Editorial Boards...
...Brazilian Government brusquely broke off diplomatic relations with Moscow. Foreign Minister Raul Fernandez had hauled in the welcome mat and handed passports to the Soviet Embassy staff. Ambassador Jacob Surits was saved the indignity; he had already hiked off to Moscow...
...winter time Chief forsakes the turf for the mat and turns out the Crimson wrestling team...
...player out. His theory: a pat on the back is worth two pep talks. He took a talented but out-of-sorts team, listened to all the complaints, took the players' side in any beef with the front office. Once, when a Yankee pitcher was called on the mat for openly betting on the horses, Bucky piped up with, "So what ... I'd bet too, if I thought a tip was any good." If he had any fault, it was his reluctance to yank pitchers when the going got rough. But his patience worked wonders with Joe Page...
...Arrival Section of the U.N. Transportation Service, telephones jangled and gushed out messages: "Tell so-&-so I won't be at the apartment until later. He'll find the key under the door mat. Tell him he'd better stop at a delicatessen on the way up." The Chinese delegation was arriving at LaGuardia field, and an "Arrival" aide hurried out to meet them, only to find the plane landed and the dignitaries indistinguishably entangled with 55 welcoming Chinese. From another office in the Empire State Building, redheaded U.N. Protocol Chief Jehan de Noue darted constantly...