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...Hicks up, or if Dan Hicks had simply gotten in his last licks. In either case, Hicks, sans Licks, will appear Sunday night at Symphony Hall, probably playing the same undefinable mish-mash of rock, jug-band, and jazz-type numbers he played with his group. Nobody on the newsboard had any of his records, so I dug up one semi-authoritative opinion: "His music's like thirties' jazz mixed in with a soap commercial." But the consensus is he's fun to hear...
Candidates who have the proverbial "nose for news" will find the newsboard competition to their liking, and will have an opportunity to match wits on almost equal terms with some of the University's most tight-lipped administrators...
...right was also interested in other people. He began his career on the newsboard of the CRIMSON, looking into the private affairs of the University. Curiosity subsequently led him to a most intimate knowledge of 17 Quincy Street, but his humanitarian interests also had repercussions in Hiroshima and Bonn...
...Newsboard candidates do not have to wear glasses, nor even be able to predict the new German ambassador, but they will have an opportunity to question this Crimed's successor on Quincy Street. The competition will involve not only newspaper technique, but the digging up of news everywhere from trash baskets to racetracks...
...Newsboard candidates will soon find themselves interviewing everyone from full professors on down to Massachusetts legislators in pursuit of the big column five story that will startle the University the next morning. Editorial entrants will spend their time relaxing in local movie houses or pouring over faded newspaper volumes for editorial feature material. Potential music reviewers and art critics are in particular demand...
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