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...other. Ah, well, there you have it. Harvard gownies, unfortunately, consider their as yet incipient talents so fine that they cannot possibly demean themselves or waste their time in ordinary political activity. The curse of the daily round of dinner-table conversations, naps, and trips to Cronin's hangs pall-like as ever over the community. We give notice, however, that in the opportunity to campaign for one party (or the other) the languid student has an extraordinary opportunity to serve his own political principles and, at the same time, to have a ball. Those interested in asserting themselves...
...Charity Pall. In Andrews, S.C., declaring a "No-Donations Week," Mayor W. H. Smith complained: "Citizens of Andrews have been solicited, entreated, cajoled and coerced into making contributions and donations without surcease since the time of the founding of our fair city and desire seven days' respite...
...streets of Marcinelle, fire engines and ambulances, jeeps packed with police in steel helmets, and scurrying hundreds of horrified people, rushed to the pit. Italian women were shrieking, "We want our men!", praying "Santa Maria! Santa Maria!" Black-robed priests and Red Cross nurses moved about beneath a spreading pall of coal dust and grime...
...ahead of everyone else. The Huangs were startled, but his mother remarked defensively that food was scarce in Canton because Red China "is saving to build for the future." "I and young men like me," announced little Li Po at this point, "will be masters of the future." A pall of silence fell over the meal...
Thayer, a writer of meretricious bestsellers (Call Her Savage, Thirteen Women), accepted the challenge to find out. The years passed, and with advertising copywriter jobs (now Pall Mall cigarettes) to keep him from want, Author Thayer learned Italian and let his fancy run riot. It ran to 47,000 handwritten pages. A more fastidious publisher might have been appalled by so mountainous an exercise in bad taste, but Dial Press President George Joel, who has made a killing with the sexual leers of Frank (The Foxes of Harrow) Yerby, decided on one of the most massive gambles in recent...