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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Judging by all standards, this number is the best I have seen. When I pick up a Yale Record, I always turn first to the eight or nine-odd pages of squibs and gags in the front and back page of the magazine, to see how unfunny they are. Usually they are unbearable; this time, however, I found myself laughing at a fair number of them. For the Record, this is a good sign...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: On the Shelf | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...quiet again, except for a few apple-checked young men arriving from Yale, but Soldier's Field was having its biggest afternoon of the season. The pretty girls and the undergraduates (with and without bottles) mingled with players, players' families, and Yalies along the sidelines of the dozen-odd football and soccer games. When the Crimson started piling up victories, football fever began to take hold...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Rally on Widener Steps Ends Pre-Game Hoopla | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

Proceeds from the Radcliffe News sponsored Hobo Party will put the Annex 70th Anniversary Fund $425 further toward its goal. June Schecter '49, editor-in-chief, will present the total profits of the affair, which 300-odd students attended, to drive chairmen next week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hobo Party Nets $425 | 11/19/1948 | See Source »

Since the United States and Great Britain are so vitally concerned with security, it seems odd that they might support a plan throwing Israel into the Soviet orbit. The wisest move by far would be to encourage direct negotiation between Arabs and the Jewish government. When the peace is settled in favor of Israel, as it certainly will be, the U. S. and Britain should lend all possible aid to the new state in the hope of building a strong, progressive nation. The one great hope for this course of action is in the report that President Truman has notified...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Palestine: The Choice | 11/16/1948 | See Source »

...shawl on the piano" and " 'popup' cigarette boxes , . . decorated with a scotty or a nude." But she shows that her judgment has less to do with taste than with fashion when she advocates "tables made of old painted tin trays on a modern stretcher base" and "odd saucers of Lowestoft china ... as ashtrays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ahoy, Polloi! | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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