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Today the key plugger is a suede-shod salesman with a Windsor-knotted tie who goes by the Tin Pan Alley title of "professional manager." His job is to convince record manufacturers that his publisher's song is headed for the bestseller lists. There is plenty of music for record men to choose from; after a weary week of listening, they are ready to believe that every third person in the U.S. is a would-be tunesmith. But since the only way to be sure of not missing a hit is to listen to everything, most companies assign experts...
Taking first place in every event but the hammer and discus, the track team ran rough shod 78 to 30 over an Andover squad that last week tripped Yale. Bob Morrison in the 300 and 600 yard runs, and Fletcher Hodges in the broad jump and high jump were the Yardling' only double winners...
...bond of intimacy was broken. Claudel wrote to a friend that Gide seemed to him "simply an over-nervous person who has let himself go . . . and poisoned himself with medicine, philosophy and literature." Not without arrogance, he added: "We others, we Catholics, are built to walk dry-shod through the Red Sea." Today, at 84, Claudel has never changed his mind on that. Gide remained uncommitted until his death, declaring himself "neither Protestant nor Catholic but quite simply a Christian...
...embarrassment. He wouldn't wear shoes. When the neighbors saw him walking around on cold days wearing a hat and overcoat but no shoes, some of them thought his parents couldn't or wouldn't buy him any. Not until he was twelve was he consistently shod. At 54 he still likes to pad barefoot around the farm when he is home, and around the house when he is in Washington. Says he: "I still don't like slippers...
...students at present enrolled at the School are a far cry from the white shod, grew-flanneled undergraduates they pass everyday. The would be teachers are one of the oldest groups studying in the University, ranging from 22 to 52 years old. Because so many of them are already teaching in secondary schools, over half are enrolled as part-time students only. These part-time students pay for each course they take separately, eventually accumulating enough credits for one of the various degrees the school offers. Twice as many men as women are enrolled; almost all students live at home...