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...university's tall, grey-haired President Frederick Middlebush. Afterward in the living room he got a new round of laughter and applause by playing the Jenny Lind Polka as a piano duet with his sister, birdlike, 60-year-old Mary Jane Truman, and by giving her a brotherly poke with his elbow for making a mistake in her chording...
Fred Gwynne's only contribution to the issue is the fine cover, and the cartoons are far below the quality of those in recent issues. With the exception of a small poke at the Phillips Brooks House clothes drive, none of them merited reprinting. Certainly there have been some funnier attempts from the 'Poon's drawing boards in the past than this collection indicates...
...Dali poke holes in his figures and make everything float? "Modern physics," the artist explained with a twitch of his delicate handlebar mustache, "has revealed to us increasingly the dematerialization which exists in all nature and that is the reason why the material body of my Madonna does not exist and why in place of a torso you find a tabernacle 'filled with Heaven.' But while everything floating in space denotes spirituality it also represents our concept of the atomic system-today's counterpart of divine gravitation...
Nothing is a pointed poke at solemn youth, but the poke is so obviously accompanied by so many friendly winks that even its victims will enjoy...
Birdsall's two last-period goals both came on one-man plays. Doug Bradlee passed to him at the Eliot blue line on the first, and he carried in from there to score; the second time, he poke-checked Davenport's left defenseman, grabbed the puck and scored on a shot almost identical to the previous...