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Dorothy McGuire at 25 looks so precisely like the sort of Middlewestern middle-class girl you might see crossing any Eastern campus because that is exactly what she is. Daughter of an Omaha lawyer, isolated in her early teens first by her parents' divorce and then her father's tragic death, she was educated in an Indianapolis convent school and at Pine Manor Junior College at Wellesley, Mass...
...Middlewestern delegation to Harvard is composed of a queer lot. They are notorious for their adoption of Eastern manners, mores, and accents, and for their desertion of the rough, rude, vigorous, semi-savage tradition of their native central plains. And for 357 days in the year, their rep is well deserved. The sons of the Middle Border eschew the "r"s and the multi-colored clothing with which they have been born and bred and lean toward tweeds and martinis...
...about eight days every year, the football Saturdays of the fall, the whole tribe of them give up this Eastern tomfoolery and revert to their true Middlewestern background. For deep in the heart of every honest product of the states between the western Pennsylvania border and the eastern Colorado line lies a loyalty to his own local football aggregation, a loyalty that transcends any artificial enthusiasm he may have worked up for Harvard during his undergraduate career...
...demand for a "high-stepping, tastefully exposed majorette" is new in Ivy League circles. But the feminine addition to bands had been generally accepted in middlewestern and fall west colleges, which have recognized that "sex is here to stay...
...will dutifully loaf in honor of the Father of Our Country. But out in Cincinnati, next Tuesday will be lot more than a yearly holiday. For on that date, some thirteen Harvard Clubs will gather there for the first annual meeting of the Regional Harvard Clubs of five middlewestern states...