Word: minority
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faye Emerson Roosevelt was recovering nicely from a minor razor gash on her wrist (eight stitches were taken, but only for what her doc Lor called "esthetic" reasons) and a major attack of tabloid headlines. After the first front-page flurries about an attempt at suicide had subsided, she and Elliott told their story: she had really cut her wrist accidentally while reaching for some aspirin...
Failures in a few minor subjects will no longer flunk a student out of Princeton. Instead he will be judged on his over-all average...
...system" goes roughly like this: a player in a major sport gets his big "H" even if he sees only five seconds of action against Yale--but an athlete in a minor sport, no matter how many records he may smash, has to be content with a small letter. And if a player in any sport misses his Yale game, whatever the reason, he doesn't get a letter...
...best way to untangle this executive snarl would be to drop the requirement that a man must compete against Yale to earn his letter--a horse-and-buggy relie pure and simple. The right of players to the "H" is something the coaches should decide. Captains of minor sports squads deserve major letters--this has been recognized heretofore, but again only in special cases. Finally, to improve the morale of minor sports athletes, squads having excellent but not perfect records should receive major letters (teams with perfect seasons get them automatically). These changes have long been needed...
...picture is especially noteworthy for its lack of Hollywood exaggeration or unreal emotion, although it strains at one touch of sentimentality when the inmates tearfully sing "Going Home" at an asylum dance. Except for this minor defect, the film's purity aids it in revealing the dark horrors of mental disease at the bottom of a snake...