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...view with alarm the Psychology Department's current crop of educated pigeons. Professor B. F. Skinner has spent the winter teaching his birds to play ping pong, tell time, and pick out tunes on the piano. He claims the experiment will help increase our insight into human behavior: what makes us suspicious is the speed and interest the pigeons have shown in their studies...
...Paris is worth a Mass," and the demagogic slogan, "Every family should have a fowl in the pot on Sunday." Bao Dai put his money in Swiss banks (and thereby saved it from World War II's reverses), collected stamps, practiced tennis with Champion Henri Cochet, learned ping-pong, dressed in tweeds and flannels, vacationed in the Pyrenees, scented himself heavily with Coty and Chanel perfumes...
...Jeffries, 75, heavyweight champ who was knocked flat in 1910 by Jack Johnson, the first Negro champ, observed that the fight game has become so sissified that "I'd rather see a wrestling match . . . Lots of these kids fighting now would make damn good ping-pong players...
...same time as the dance, freshmen will conduct a carnival in the gym where food, games, beanies and stuffed animals fill be sold. A special attraction will be a booth where Martha McCabe '53 and Janet McNeil '53 will dodge ping-pong balls...
...wins the princess' hand in the end, Turandot hardly offers much opportunity for dramatic movement on the stage. In the City Center production, Stage Director Vladimir Rosing and Designer H. A. Condell had succeeded in getting up some colorful pageantry; three Gilbert & Sullivan types named Ping, Pang anu Pong, the emperor's ministers, did their best to give the opera some comic relief; and Soprano Martinis sang her stony and stolid role with a voice that was as strong, hard and cold as a wire cable. The chill was hardly her fault: singing her first Turandot, she found...