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...apocryphal John Harvard continued to contemplate his book last night, but the symbol of Ivy League superiority got little help from anti-Intellectual broom Jockeys who proved that nothing is sacred on All Hallow's Eve by planting a large and cynical pumpkin on top of the book that has for many years held John's undivided attention. But the Grounds Crew came to the slow-witted scholar's rescue with a ladder and a long pole. The crew reported through its collective nose that the intruder suffered from acute internal decay, but the statue maintained its dignity...
...spite of these distinguished scholars, the U.S. academic world still tends to look askance at its glittering Cinderella. For some reason, the canard persists that should midnight ever strike, the whole place would turn out to be a pumpkin after all. Yet, by any standard, Duke has gone far in its brief 30 years, and perhaps its greatest asset is the fact that it is so fully conscious of how far it has still to go. Slowly but surely, says President Edens, "we are developing an attitude of excellence." Given that ambition, Duke has but one major...
Karl Earl Mundt, 53, acting committee chairman, South Dakota's senior Senator, once before was an acting chairman during a dramatic episode: in 1948, when the pumpkin film in the Alger Hiss case was disclosed, he was head of the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator-elect, having won his promotion with the help of the Hiss case. Mundt. who was a teacher for 13 years, has a schoolteacher's patient manner. Now, torn between his allegiance to the Administration and his friendship for McCarthy, Karl Mundt obviously needs all his patience. In his opening remarks last...
...fairy godmother in all this is Comedian Phil Silvers, playing a sort of Bottom Banana in the burlesque business; but for all the waving of his magic cigar, the movie is still a pumpkin...
...atomic tests at Bikini. Called to testify before a grand jury and in the second Hiss trial, Inslerman confessed nothing, pleaded the Fifth Amendment's protection. But in Inslerman's Schenectady home, the FBI found a Leica whose imperfections matched the scratch marks on Chambers' famed pumpkin film...