Word: ocd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before stepping down from that oratorical pedestal, it is only just to say that, despite the puerileness of the OCD's makeup and the sterility of its writing, there is nothing organically wrong with the News that a few conscientious and talented younger editors couldn't cure...
When the Oldest College Daily announced last Spring that it would suspend Saturday publication, we sympathized, suggested that "neither God nor Country operates on a five day week," and published a series of CRIMSON New Haven editions. The OCD did not take the hint, and declared they would print only on Saturdays when there were Big Doings. Since then the News, except for continually running fake pictures of Crime editors, has barely done enough to justify publishing five days of the week. In a number of articles they have, in effect, invited us to analyse them in return, a pompous...
...Williams, Shubert Theatre ingenues, and even Eva Marie Saint have paraded through the front page colunms in various degrees of exposure. Almost everyone enjoys ribald whimsy, but the News handles its sex with heavy hands, as in the ludicrous interview with a breasty wench named Meg Myles, whom the OCD reporter referred to as "Hollywood starlet and two of America's rising beauties...
...team will denounce inheritance of wealth tonight in the annual Harvard-Yale debate. This marks a high point in Bulldog consistency--first the OCD editorialized for a 100% death tax, and then a Yalie refused his $350,000 inheritance. The debaters will be in tuxedos, the contest in Sanders at 8:30, and the public will be admitted free...
...second law suit as many weeks was threatening the coffers of the OCD yesterday. This time a successful verdict would decimate the New Haven sheet's masthead and its once proud boast...