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English has replaced Government, the traditional leader, as the most popular field of concentration among freshmen, Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar of the College, announced yesterday...
Government, the leading field for every freshman class from '51 through '56, dropped to 11.1 percent from its previous high of 16.5 for the classes of '55 and '56. The most popular field last year, History, dropped only .9 percent, but placed third behind Government with 10.6 percent...
Today in the U.S. lacrosse is a familiar sport from Florida to New England and west to the campus of Ohio State. It is only natural that it is a popular offseason diversion for football players who like to keep in shape. At Maryland, Muscleman Frank Tamburello, one of the most promising quarterbacks in collegiate football, is an enthusiastic lacrosse player. And since Navy and Maryland have not met on the football field since 1952, Tamburello and his teammates have an added incentive to scuttle the Middies in lacrosse...
Dial a Stamp. To dispense odd lots of postage stamps, post offices are installing automatic stamp-selling machines in their windows in 66 of the busiest cities. The machine, made by Electric Vendors of Minneapolis, has six dials, one for each of the most popular stamp denominations. When a customer asks for a few stamps (up to ten), the clerk dials the proper number and out pop the stamps. Price: $1,000 per machine...
...Laurette's mistakes as an actress was that she used herself up on plays written by her husbands. When she married the popular but lightweight British Playwright J. Hartley Manners, it was both a real love match and a tacit contract to become his star for life. Together they became rich and famous (Peg 0' My Heart, One Night in Rome), but it was plain that a great talent was being spent on thin theater. Laurette did not seem much to care. Peg 0' My Heart had made her a favorite of New York and London...