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...turn at the Union's more or less palatable offerings are hardly anything new. During their first few weeks in the Yard, eagerness, hunger, sheer boredom, or some more nebulous force usually impels Freshmen Union-ward just at the hour when the great dining hall first opens its maw. A short period of acclimation, as a rule, yields wisdom of a sort and customers begin to appear in a regular flow from opening to closing hour. But this year with the orientation past, the lines remain...
...Maw MacBean (Selena Royle) is glad to have Van around, and young Lissy (Janet Leigh) makes eyes enough for a whole county's quota of farmers' daughters. Gill MacBean (Thomas Mitchell) is less easily won over by the stranger. The Civil War has just been fought, and feeling still runs high. Barns are being burned by masked riders; Yankees and ex-Rebels still won't help each other out with the crops, or even keep their tempers at a party. Old Man MacBean, a 100% Rebel, has a burning question: Are the stranger's britches blue...
Rebels. Mormonism, with 74% of Utah's citizens, is still the greatest influence in the state's politics. Utah's two Congressmen and both its Senators are Mormons, and so is Governor Herbert B. Maw. Mormon politicians do not invariably follow the hierarchy. Neither the Governor nor Democratic Senator Elbert Thomas are "church candidates" in the sense that they represent the church's ultra-conservative policies on such matters as labor and foreign policy. Mormon voters have a mind of their own, too. Despite the church's opposition they gave Roosevelt a majority four times...
Insatiable Mem Hall will open wide its cavernous maw once again this morning to gobble up an expected summer registration morsel of 1140 students returning from the spring term to hike enrollment figures in the College...
...this triangle Red Flag stands opposed. This is the present situation, but if & when U Saw's army, aided and abetted by Ba Maw's and Ba Sein's, rises to action, then PVO, Red Shirt and Red Guard will turn against them, Red Flag either abstaining or attacking...