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...short, we certainly admit that advertising and publicity and even contracting could have been hauled more smoothly; however, to overlook the great progress that a small overworked committee has accomplished, and by exaggerating the results of one aspect, to call the whole year's work a failure, as the heading of the editorial does, is not only untrue, but also unfair. Donald L. Bornstein '50 Chairman, Harvard NSA P.C. Committee Chairman, Boston Area P.C.S...
...Radcliffe Room is a large room in the social center, with windows on three sides which overlook the Rokko hills. After the room was ready and in use, Radcliffe added to its equipment a gift of two dozen cups, saucers, and plates bearing Radcliffe designs...
...issue was plain as a picket's placard: the case had sinister overtones of Jim Crowism and white supremacy. In a furious editorial the Worker slapped down its sportwriters : "We regret that [they] should have tended in one case to minimize and in the other case to overlook this social aspect of the Durocher case, their comments ranging from a 'let's-hear-from-both-sides' to a 'it's-too-difficult-to-judge' attitude...
...Detroit brain trust was ready to overlook an occasional early-season error in judgment from the youngster they hoped would take over Joe DiMaggio's American League center-field crown some day. This week, in an exhibition game, the Yankees' Joe and the Tigers' Johnny got together for the first time. DiMaggio, hobbling by on his sore heel, went to bat as a pinch hitter and drew a walk; Groth got a single in five times at bat, tossed out a Yankee at the plate with a good throw from center field. Did Groth look like...
This, thought Denmark's Communist daily, was too good to overlook. The ambassador's "escapist" party, crowed Land og Folk, pointed an ugly moral. Said Land og Folk: "It makes one think of other festivals where aristocrats amused themselves by dressing up as plain peasants -that was in the period preceding the French Revolution [when] the people of Versailles fled from reality into a rustic idyll . . . [Today again] exploited masses are rising and claiming their right-but our aristocrats do not want to hear...