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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Carol Charming, 32, doll-eyed musicomedienne who rocked Broadway as the dimwitted gold digger in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Alexander Carson, 29, former private eye and now pro-football center (Ottawa Rough Riders): their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Channing. Weight...
...said that the reasons the Soviets do not want war are that "time is working for them," and that they like to use the Red Army as the final instrument of political conquest. "They prefer to use political infiltration rather than military aggression," he added...
...tutorial system at Leverett works ideally for those who want it. One-time Brown football great Arnold M. Soloway, Leverett's Burr Senior Tutor, has made a host of friends, but he will not descend on those who prefer to limit their acquaintaince with him to more decanal occasions...
...part of its laissez-faire attitude, Winthrop has very little of the typical "House spirit." For the most part its residents prefer a decentralized atmosphere to the more closely integrated tone of some other Houses. But is is definitely not a cliquish House and, quite to the contrary, has a rather warm geniality about...
...business of language requirements, treated last Saturday in a CRIMSON editorial, has kept the Faculty in a lather for the past fifty years. Some people want all such things abolished. Others prefer to require a little exposure, and a few wish to engulf the hapless undergraduate altogether...