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...Chipwich cart. Chipwiches were the marketing phenomenon of Summer 1981. All around the city, hundreds of identical little brown carts sprang up and sold a single remarkable item; a scoop of ice cream between two chocolate-chip cookies, I only began to pass up the chipwich vendor when I realized that at a dollar a shot, I could buy two david's cookies and a small scoop of Haagen Dazs...
...Real Scoop...
...adoption of a "convocation week" to permit learned societies to hold their meetings at some other time than during the summer vacation. This action was taken as a result of the request made by a committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. FDR's Big Scoop...
...long been a rule on this newspaper that to win election to the staff, a reporter must bring in a genuine scoop or two. Often that involves digging; sometimes it is a matter of luck; and occasionally it demands gall and not much more. When Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 came out for The Crimson, as they said in those days, he didn't have a lot of reportorial experience. He did, however, have pluck. And so, despite another longstanding custom--which forbade candidates for the paper from talking to the president of the College--he asked President Eliot...
...guarantee a spot. Or would it? The break that finally turned young Roosevelt into a Crimed came in April, when he called Teddy to see when they could get together. Why, right after I lecture in Government 1 tomorrow, the vice president said, and Roosevelt had his second scoop. He was elected an editor within a month...