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Aldrich Hall's guinea pig lecture room behind Baker Library at the Business School will be used as a storeroom this term, Business School officials said yesterday...
...There is no need for the party to buy a pig in a poke. The New Dealers and the me-tooers say that Bob Taft lacks color and glamour. To this I say he has the color of ability, the color of experience, the color of courage . . . Hero worship is no substitute for faith based on known performance. Neither is glamour or sex appeal. If we as a party, at this late date, propose to risk our political future on such slender attributes, then I say the party is dead and we are met here today merely to select...
Every exam period, the first level smoking room of Lamont Library becomes a highbrow version of a pig sty. The sudden appearance of back copies of examinations transforms what is normally a quiet sanctum for the contemplation of good books and smoke-rings into a paper-littered mess, with exam books strewn everywhere...
...movement was not making much of a dent in the Taft stronghold in the Midwest. Snapped the Chicago Tribune last week, commenting on Eisenhower's candidacy: "The American people are asked to buy a pig in a poke. They are asked to accept as a Republican a man whose whole career has been achieved through New Deal patronage . . . Why should the party advertise that it is utterly wanting in conviction by accepting a candidate who represents the basic tenets of the opposition...
...Rescue. In the early afternoon, with the storm still rising and his ship sodden under his feet, Captain Carlsen sent an SOS: ENCOUNTERING SEVERE HURRICANE . . . SITUATION GRAVE . . . HAVE 30 DEGREE LIST AND JUST DRIFTING . . . At nightfall things got worse; the pig iron in the holds shifted and the ship rolled to port again as if she were going completely over. She hung, listing now at 60 degrees; at times the deck was almost perpendicular. The captain clawed his way among his ten passengers (five women, a boy, four men) with a bottle of brandy, reassured them, had them covered with...