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...Harvard janitor told him that the students were no redder than 20 years ago, and that "of course, we've always had a few nuts on the faculty." But Griffin viewed with alarm the Nieman Foundation, the Crimson (which he thought aptly named), and Author Vera Micheles Dean, for "suppressing the uglier aspects" of Communism in her course on the U.S.S.R. (The Crimson tartly pointed out that Mrs. Dean was not even teaching at Harvard; she is due to begin next month...
...unless Richard Cresson Harlow can dupe the Bulldog for four quarter instead of last year's one, it looks like Yale will take the title. For the Quakers, again forsaking their cloistered neighbors for redder meat, would have only four successful appearances to match Eli's six (with Brown, Princeton, and Harvard being serviced the next three weeks...
...Political Matters. Everything went smoothly until one morning last week, when the lecturer injected some personal hygiene instruction into the program. Painted faces grew redder as he discussed physiological details, with blackboard drawings. Autumn Fragrance and Jade Object nervously lighted cigarettes, violating the ban on smoking in class. When a policeman reprimanded them, they angrily retorted that they Would not listen to such "obscene speech." The policeman drew a pistol, but a moment later retreated before the screaming and clawing girls...
...seemed like a bad week to Reid Robinson, head of the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers (C.I.O.). A third of his locals had seceded, accusing him of being proCommunist. He resigned. The man who succeeded him was his vice president, Maurice E. Travis-who was redder than Robinson. The secessionists were not appeased...
...heard the voters' voice. Chicago's Ed Kelly, once thumpingly in favor of clamping on the price lid, put an ear to the ground. Even Chicago was out of meat, and some 40,000 unemployed packinghouse workers wanted to get back to work. Ed rushed to Washington, redder than a cop's undershirt, to join National Chairman Bob Hannegan and members of the Democratic Party's executive committee at a chicken lunch. What, they asked, could be done...