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Different Stories. After her mother's arrest, giddy, publicity-eager Sylvia Brühne spilled an eerie story to police and press. Vera, she said, had only pretended her willingness to relinquish the estate...
...kidding, we're serious. There is an elephant race next week in California. We want to enter a Harvard elephant. Today is the crucial day. We must accept our option on the four-ten, 11-feet Jumbo mammal Senita or relinquish her to the barbariane of Yale or Washington State. Gall KI 7-2211 today with pledges for the Harvard Elephant Fund. This could be the sports event of the sixties...
...press conference in Boston yesterday morning, Hughes, professor of History, announced his candidacy for the United States Senate seat which Benjamin '39 will relinquish this term...
Referring to the resignation, President Pusey said, "It is quite understandable that, in view of his recent illness, Dean Teele should wish to relinquish the arduous and unremitting pressures of the office he as so ably filled for the past seven years." Pusey added "His impending departure from the University gives us a sense of deep loss, yet, we sympathize fully with his decision...
Director Frances Royster has used a deft hand in keeping Roses abloom. For better or worse, her refusal to relinquish a good, crackling laugh turns the serious side of the play into something of a non-sequitur. Miss Levine may, of course, have written it in as such. At any rate, John McLean acquits himself with versatility and a feeling for the contradictions of "The Doctor's" character. Jane Schroeder is marvellously funny as the hostess, and as Rosie, Deborah Steinberg may yet prove the playmate of the western world...