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...fault for the shortcomings of the Defense Information Bureau. If any such slight was construed, we did not intend it. However, it remains that there is room for improvement in the administrative set-up, and we feel that a full time staff is needed to help the students to select the branch of the service for which they are best fitted...
...Rumors are sent in by mail to the paper," Knapp said, "and we select and disprove a certain number each day. Of course there are many we can't handle," he pointed out, "such as stories about the Army and the Navy, and other matters that are supposed to be secret. We have scores of tales, for instance," he said, "about the whereabouts and the use of the Queen Mary, but we haven't followed any of them...
...little music still audible if you listen for it. There is the assurance, never to be contradicted, that you yourself, endowed with the necessary technique, could improvise a jazz solo worthy of a Louis Armstrong. There is also the glow of superiority at being a member of a somewhat select, if ever-growing, minority to which names like Pee-Wee Russell and records like "Knockin' a Jug" mean something. And finally, there is the appreciation which an acquaintance with jazz, the unique invention of the Negro, brings of this other and larger minority and its problems...
...head the board the retiring officers will select a Junior chairman. A freshman editor will also be chosen to supervise the Yardling section of the book and circulation among that class...
...round table conference will be conducted this afternoon to select six undergraduates to represent the College in the government-sponsored inter-American Discussion Contest. They will be open to the public, who will be free to ask questions from the floor if time permits...