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...into the end-zone stands like one big paying claque. Yet there was not a heckle of complaint about the low-fi sound, and plenty of uproarious laughter at even her simplest lines. A whistle whined from the neighboring railway yard. "My God!" she cried. "It's got poifect pitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: Poifect | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...called "Harvard manner" troubles us even more. Why, we query, should a man act like a gentleman in college? Or, for that matter, why shouldn't he? A person's polish, blithely spattered upon a well-thumbed pedigree, will hardly serve him in peddling bonds. Wherefor then, all this poifect gent stuff? Is it, too, an adaptation to environment? Perhaps, but since the wholesome prostitution of "good names" has become a disturbing realization to most of the Beacon Street element there must be something beneath the surface. The Harvard man must actually have a manner. He has He has lots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MEN "MOIST," ACCORDING TO ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF YALE RECORD | 11/18/1927 | See Source »

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