Word: proms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prom King Politics. Plainly, Wisconsin 1948 is a transitional generation, half in and half over the G.I. era. "Politics" to many a Wisconsin student is once more coming to mean the election of Junior Prom King, instead of Harry Truman. Before the November elections, Bob LaFollette, 22-year-old grandson of "Old Bob," made speeches for MacArthur; there were about a dozen avowed campus Marxists, and even one Dixiecrat. A Daily Cardinal poll showed students about evenly split between Truman and Dewey; they were also vaguely internationalist, and convinced that Russia would have to be stopped. The Cardinal, though, seemed...
...spring, when he was boss in Brooklyn, he told his players he didn't want any handshaking out on the field. "I don't want any talking either ... A ball game isn't a junior prom. Do you get what I mean?" One of the players didn't. "What is a junior prom?" he asked. "You don't know what a junior prom is?" thundered Casey. "A junior prom is a prom that ain't old enough to be senior prom...
...delegation traveled to Bryn Mawr, and the ensemble sang Christmas Carols at Radcliffe and spruced up a Wellesley Sophomore Spring Prom...
...took to the road with a touring orchestra and played one-night stands up & down the country ("It was hell, honey: 18 men and me"). One night in Ithaca, at a Cornell prom, Fredda got a call from Orchestra Leader Richard Himber: he had heard her recording of I'll Never Tell You I Love You, and wanted to try her out in a radio show. Fredda borrowed $10 from the band manager and lit out for Manhattan. The orchestra hasn't heard from her since...
...educators took the bait. Cried Josephus Daniels in the Raleigh News & Observer; "There was a time when a man uttering such an unsupported slander would have [had] his tongue cut out." Protested the Lawrence, Kans. superintendent of schools: "I just wish Mr. Green could have attended our junior-senior prom. . . ." The University of Wisconsin's dean of women coolly observed that "it is impossible for anyone to have the facts...