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...velvet waistcoats of vivid green or brilliant crimson" and his lowbred way of breezily combing his long tresses during a dinner given in his honor. At one such function he was asked which of two countrywomen of his was the more beautiful, the Duchess of Sutherland or Mrs. Caroline Norton, and put the whole Eastern seaboard into deep freeze by replying airily: "Well, I don't know. Mrs. Norton is perhaps the more beautiful, but the Duchess to my mind is the more kissable...
Melvin L. Zurier '50, President of the Debate Council, was offered a position as coach of the new Wheaton College debate team after he participated in a demonstration debate at Norton...
When all of the tag ends of this far-flung reporting job were in, Senior Editor Duncan Norton-Taylor sat down to write the story. He had his facts and, when his story was done, Frankie Waldron, alias Eugene Dennis, was no longer such a mystery...
Avery, now 75 years old, had not planned his loneliness. When he goaded President Wilbur Norton and four vice presidents into leaving last year (TIME, May 31 et seq.), he persuaded three other vice presidents, who had also threatened to resign, to stay on. But he neither forgot nor forgave their participation in "the Norton conspiracy" to curb some of Avery's dictatorial power. Last month he decided how he would take his reprisal...
...next day, Avery got a shock. Vice President Willard Sahloff, Avery's right-hand man and the only vice president left, also handed in his resignation. Avery could not call Sahloff a "conspirator"; he had made Sahloff a vice president after Norton left, and praised him highly. Last week, Avery revised his estimate. Said he: "Sahloff was not an important man ... I am very glad his weakness made itself apparent now." Sahloff promptly got a job as president of Milwaukee's National Enameling & Stamping...