Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks ago needle-witted Tom Connally, senior Senator from Texas, blithely predicted that the 1941 tax bill would "just jerk 'em out of their shoes." Although the jerk won't come until March 15, 1942, last week the U.S. and Congress got their first clear look at the Treasury's new forceps. The public, with only a few painful gulps, stood up to the frightful sight like a brave little man, but Congress fainted dead away. Later it opened one eye to ask for plenty of anesthetic during the operation...
...years oldtime Pitcher Smoky Joe Wood, the Bob Feller of 30 years ago, has been coaching at Yale, home-teaching his own three spratlings the tricks of the game. Last fortnight Yale played Colgate. Pitching for Yale was his biggest boy, Joe Jr., now a senior and captain of the team. On the mound for Colgate was Second Son Steve. Youngest Son Bobby, who also can pitch, played first base for Colgate. Smoky Joe couldn't lose. Yale...
Harry Newman '42 of Adams House and Beverly Hills, California, was appointed chairman of the 1942 "Senior Album" yesterday afternoon. Selected to act as his assistants were Photographic Editor John A. Holabird, Jr. '42, Literary Editor John P. Bunker '42, and Circulation Manager Charles S. Bridge...
...Regulation of Athletic Sports, having the final say in all matters, yet with only three undergraduate representatives. Then there is the lethargic Undergraduate Athletic Council comprised entirely of students, under the thumb of the H. A. A. and powerless to serve as more than an advisory board to the senior committee. Finally there are two organizations regulating House sports. The addition of still committee to this hierarchy man seem the opposite of what is called for. But actually none of the four existing bodies can meet several pressing problems...
Chairman of the Student Council, captain of the squash team, and president of the Council of Government Concentrators, the handsome Senior is shown in every phase of his life from doing pushups in his underwear before breakfast to admiring the state of his wardrobe...