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Meanwhile, six students yesterday wired the Brown Daily Herald that they consider Brown's suspension of 12 students Thursday "too severe" a punishment. The Brown men had smeared Widener's columns with brown paint, a stunt which the telegraphers called "an obvious juvenile prank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Police Keep Vigil for Vandals | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

...part of Jupiter, Paul Sparer has brought an excellent speaking voice and an assured performance that missed few opportunities to play up all aspects of his prank on Alkmena. David Bauman was adopt as Mercury, the pandering, puckish son of Jupiter of an earlier affair. He achieved, through good timing, the proper tinge of irony to his barbs. Though the role of Amphitryon, thanks to the machinations of Jupiter, is relatively small, John Seiler handled it skillfully...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Amphitryon 38 | 11/12/1948 | See Source »

...Dean's Office affairs," he wrote for his class' twenty-fifth alumni report, "and my claims as an economist are feeble." In the printing of the book the last word was altered to read "feeble-minded" but this Dean Leighton laughs about and possibly regards as a delayed "College" prank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Delmar Leighton: "A Sort of Beadle" | 10/7/1948 | See Source »

...much good for commercial use, and has no resale value, so police reason that the large balloon, last seen floating over the local delicatessen, was stolen as a student prank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Delicatessen Fishing for Lost Balloon with $50 Bait | 10/6/1948 | See Source »

...those musicals where expense is no object, and presumably entertainment isn't one either. Bits of the dancing aside, it offers $200,000 worth of tedious bad taste about a young man who plays the heroine in a varsity show; his picture (submitted as a prank) wins a Hollywood beauty contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, May 17, 1948 | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

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