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...choice," a public speaking teacher said in reference to the choice of Hiss by Bruce D. Bringgold '57, Whig-Clio president. "We all had Father Halton regretted that the initial invition was ever tendered to Hiss. The Whig-Cliosophic Society which sponsored the talk, originally asked a total of seventeen luminaries--including Vice-President Nixon, Generals MacArthur, Ridgeway, and Marshall, Governor Folsom, Senators Eastland, McCarthy, Kefauver, and George--to address undergraduates...
...first question is easy enough to answer. The Lowell House Bell-Ringers are a small group of people who like to ring bells. And they have some very nice bells to ring. Their Russian set of zvon--as opposed to carillion or conventional ding-dong--bells consists of seventeen clangers weighing between 22 pounds and 13 tons. Up to now, at 12:30 on Sundays and once every other week before the famed "high table," the bell-ringers have gotten some nicely coordinated noise from their bells in the cloud-cuckoo-land over Lowell House...
Johnson's script is a slick, competent job. While the scenario is complex and maybe too long, it makes effective use of flashbacks to fill in the war career of the man in the grey flannel suit. The flashbacks show how he killed seventeen men in the war, and--more convincingly--how he fell in love with an Italian girl in Rome. Returning home, he has a new attitude toward himself and the public relations job which he soon takes. Remaining self-consistent, the action builds up to a series of crucial scenes. If some of the early parts...
Positive that this custom was the primary cause of boxing's early death in the College, Lamar, in 1939, proposed a ruling which prohibited anyone who had boxed in a public contest after the age of sixteen from competing in intercollegiate boxing--amateurs cannot box officially until seventeen. The N.C.A.A. turned down this proposal, however, until 1948 when the last of the big Eastern schools gave up the sport...
Only seven of the seventeen passed the physical, however, and thus qualify for commissions under Jones's plan. Some of the seven have expressed wishes to transfer to the Army ROTC unit, but most indicated in a meeting yesterday that they would rather remain with the Air Force, it was learned...