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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rather than take a dogmatic and futile stand on these issues, we prefer to concentrate all our force on the membership list rule. Richard M. Sandler, President Harvard Student Council
...stay-arounds are South Pacific, with Mary Martin and Ray Middleton at the Majestic on 44th; Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate, with Anno Jeffreys at the Shubert on 44th; Carol Channing in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the Anita Loos satire at the Ziogfeld at 54th and Sixth Avenue; and Ethel Merman in Call Me Madam with Irving Berlin's music at the Imperial on 45th...
...those who prefer to center their activities and contacts within their House or within their entry may find Eliot a forbidding place. Unless they go armed with a large stock of friends (and the House is interested in groups anywhere up to eight or ten members), they will not find many functions designed to get them acquainted with other House members...
...graduate averages come from New England homes, wear sweaters, skirts and low-heeled shoes (but seldom black horn-rimmed glasses and, complying with college rules, no blue jeans, ski pants, slacks or the like except in dormitories at certain hours and outdoors in sub-zero, blizzard weather). They prefer arts to technical courses, and are enrolled in the only college in the world that doesn't have a faculty...
...Manhattan, Anita (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes') Loos explained why she had changed the title of her new novel on Hollywood life from Sex Doesn't Last to A Mouse Is Born. The first choice, she said, "is a lousy title. What I mean is the principle of the title is simply not the truth. And I never deal in anything but the truth...