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...while these isolated cases all agreed in criticizing the Lampoon and the small minority at Harvard for its bad manners, the average undergraduate at both colleges did not treat the matter with any great seriousness. The student at Cambridge felt that the Tiger football players were a little rougher than ordinary and that their undergraduate body did overdress; while the man of Princeton, although somewhat rankled at being called an underwear salesman, still looked forward to the next football game with the Crimson as one of the highpoints of the fall. This was apparently the limit of the "evident animosity...
Religious Juggernaut? Meanwhile, the Christian Century reached its 40,000 subscribers with one of the sharpest attacks on Billy yet made anywhere-far rougher than the criticism from Roman Catholics three weeks ago (TIME, May 6). With well-bred disdain, the Century regarded Billy as a sinister and strange "new junction of Madison Avenue and the Bible Belt . . . Radio and television will be carrying the voice and image of blond sincerity into homes long conditioned to recognize packaged virtue and desperate now for almost any kind of sincerity. It simply cannot fail. With trainloads of well-saved out-of-town...
...piloted an Imperial to official second place in the sweepstakes, was knocked out of the race by her champion son, Mel. But the women drivers came so near to matching the men's average (20.23 miles per gallon v. the men's 20.64) that they confidently promised rougher competition for the men next year. Said Mrs. Alsbury: "I hope this helps to prove that women are just as good drivers...
...others. The backbiting is likely to be bitterest as the body politic nears the point of exhaustion. In Spain, which is facing a major economic crisis as a result of 20 years of political mismanagement and economic neglect, Cabinet meetings during the past six months have been getting rougher and tougher; Monarchists boldly attacked the Falange Party, the Falangists demanded complete control of the state apparatus, and church representatives quietly plugged Christian Democracy. Two weeks ago Generalissimo Franco called in his 16-man Cabinet. "Gentlemen," said he, "I should appreciate your finishing all your pending affairs today, because this will...
...fact, what Harvard coach Floyd Wilson fears more than anything else is the polish of this Yale five. It will not make the same mistakes that the slower, rougher Princeton five made. Its big men, Lee, Downs, and Robinson, are tricky and smooth, versatile ball players, and will be hard to stop...