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...infect others, who carry green bookbags, look earnest, and wear sensible shoes. These girls like small earrings which fit like cufflinks in the center of the lobe. As yet the illness has not struck girls who wear cashmere sweaters and stockings to class and only date members of the Porcellian Club, but their immunity will probably not last long...
Varsity Crew and Hockey, House Athletics; Porcellian Club, Pi Eta Club; Varsity Club; Hasty Pudding-Institute...
...editor and publisher of Confidential Hy Steirman, said that the story was written under a pseudonym. "The Holiday Club," he explained, "is not a club like the Porcellian Club, but rather the name for a sort of clique." Confidential's information on the Holiday Club stops about a year to a year and a half ago," Steirman added...
Goheen and most other observers consider the first possibility more likely. They point out, quite correctly, that the standards of Princeton clubs are very much unlike those of their Harvard counterparts. Ivy, Cottage and other top eating clubs do not, they say "have the same membership as Porcellian or AD." This is quite true; the social standards for membership in a "Big Five" club at Princeton depend not on the sins of the fathers, but on the sins of the sons. Thus, the son of a railroad worker--if he has the social virtues, the "Cocktail Soul"--can be eagerly...
Matter of Contacts. Before he left Harvard Law, Cushing married blonde, blue-eyed Justine Cutting, socialite daughter of Dr. Fulton Cutting of New York, professor of physics at New Jersey's Stevens Institute. His closest friend (and fellow Porcellian), Alexander McFadden, had married Justine's older sister. All through his life Alec Cushing has known important people, and casually made the most of his contacts. Desultorily looking for a job. Cushing ran into his old Groton classmate, Stewart Alsop, through him got an interview with Justice Department Trustbuster Thurman Arnold, who promptly hired...