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They are well-lighted, pastel-tinted and smog-free (there is no heavy industry), and their signs cry out familiar brand names: Remington Rand, Sylvania, Paper-Mate, U.S. Rubber, Textron, Maidenform, A.S. Beck, Carborundum, Van Raalte, Bostitch, Sunbeam...
Other new officers include: vice-President Simon D. Young '57, of Adams House and Brockton; Treasurer Clifford A. Rand '57, of Lowell House and East Orange, N.J.; Director John R. Menninger '57, of Dunster House and Dayton; Director Gregory W. Harrison '57, of Kirkland House and North Grafton; and Clerk Frederick S. Hird '57, of Lowell House and Minneapolis...
Three years later, the Committee turned its attention from athletes to women; the Smoker moved to Memorial Hall to accomodate Gertrude Nieson and her bevy of "40 beautiful girls." The following year bubble dancer Sally Rand, amid a barrage of pennies, spoke on "How to be Intelligent though Educated." In addition to Miss Rand the Smoker Committee presented Frank Buck, the human giant Jack Earle, and Felix Adler, the world famous clown. President Conant did not appear...
...Miss Rand again left the Howard Athenaeum in 1941 to entertain the Freshmen. She greeted them with a fine assortment of shady stories, but turned a deaf ear when the Yardlings implored her to revert to type. Some of the more impatient stripped to the waist to give Sally the idea...
From 1942 to 1948 the Smoker was suspended for the war. Reborn by the class of '51, the frolic, headed by Al Capp and Victor Borge, seemed to assume a pace less torrid than that of the liberal pre-war years. But in 1951 Sally Rand bounced back to Memorial Hall to reveal more facts. "I am a ballet dancer," she purred. Miss Rand lectured '54 on the threat of Communism and then retreated amid a hail of pennies and ice cream bricks. Later when interviewed in her Scollay Square dressing room, she told the CRIMSON "I got no personal...