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...state that "reports filtering from the Student Council office . . . indicate that roller derby tickets are not selling at all well." What are you talking about? The Student Council is not even selling roller derby tickets, let alone making any "reports" about the roller derby that could possibly have "filtered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROLLER DERBY | 4/14/1959 | See Source »

Reports filtering in from the Student Council office in Phillips Brooks House indicate that roller derby tickets are not selling at all well. This must be viewed as but another sign of the growing student indifference to the worthwhile activities of their representatives. When so busy an organization as the Council takes the time to obtain tickets for an outstanding athletic event, one can only hope that the slow sale is due to ignorance, not to disdain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rolling On | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...products of the past few months form together an epic quest of the American for his soul. The rock and roller starts off on his Twentieth century Odyssey by defining his goals of success. The vision which Billy Parsons offers of the goal rivals Dante's path through Paradise. Parsons builds on the Presley legend for his model...

Author: By Charles S. Maier and John B. Radner, S | Title: I Hear America Swinging | 2/12/1959 | See Source »

...course, the American is chiefly concerned in his search with resolving the tension between the imperious demands of his body and the restrictions of society. As in all true epics the goal of the quest is right love, and the Rock 'n' Roller searches for this highest of human expressions. Jimmy Reed shows the semi-existential predicament...

Author: By Charles S. Maier and John B. Radner, S | Title: I Hear America Swinging | 2/12/1959 | See Source »

...swirl-dimpled, symbol-specked Weather Bureau maps, the storm gathered in classic pattern: polar air and Gulf of Mexico winds butted along a line that curled like an overturned roller coaster; winds overhead fluxed cold and warm. Translated into ground-level consequences last week, the winter's most severe storm heaved snow, sleet, gales, tornadoes and floods over most of the U.S. west to the Rockies, by week's end was responsible for more than 100 deaths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: January Thaw | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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