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...last-minute change in the meeting's site, made to accommodate the overflow crowd, resulted in a mad hegira to New Lecture Hall that caused British poet Auden to murmur, "It was rather frightening...
...about six feet of her downspout up so the rainwater runs into a washtub that sets on a barrel, and if there is a light shower she invariably gets enough in the tub to do a washing, but a heavy downpour will not only fill the tub but will overflow and fill the barrel. . . . With the downspout lifted, her supply is ample although she has some trouble getting the washtub, when it is full, down off the barrel. 'I slop out a lot,' says Lena." "Somebody Loses." The characters in Chet Shafer's guileless anthology are seldom...
Each morning Shafer climbs to his "city news bureau" in a loft over Wittenberg's newsstand. The floor is littered with years of overflow from his orange-crate "files," the whole scene dominated by a huge stove and a headless, female cigar-store Indian. There Chet pecks out "Doings," a paragraph of gossip for the local Commercial, and "straight stuff" for the Kalamazoo Gazette. Making his rounds, Chet is easy to spot: in winter by his coonskin hat and wolf coat, in summer by a flat fedora which he once had insured against fire, theft and collision...
...undergraduate housing, however, a short term crisis is foreseen by Robert B. Watson '37, associate dean of the College, but with the top floor of the Indoor Athletic Building being readied to receive any possible overflow, all new registrants will be housed, he said. A break in the number of applications rolling into the Office has made the College housing picture considerably brighter...
...Madama Butterfly at the Met or Eugen Onegin at the City Center in its first New York performance in eleven years. If they wanted symphony, they could hear their own Philharmonic-with Violinist Mischa Elman-at Carnegie Hall, or hear Serge Koussevitsky's famed Boston Symphony, playing an "overflow" concert, one of four performances the Bostonians played in New York last week...