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...Debate Council was the recipient also of a booby prize, donated by the Dartmouth Forensic Union, in the form of a small model of a drum. On it was inscribed: "Presented in memory of those valiant (sic) men who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of the Harvard bass drum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters Achieve Landslide Win In Intercollegiate Meet at Brown | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...gets tangled in his unreeling novel and goes down with his quips. Spoofing government may be like spoofing Hollywood-reality is so much more preposterous than any possible fiction. What might have been a sharp-witted satire on boobery among bureaucrats turns out to be a sheepish sermon on sic transit gloria Monday through Friday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nit-Picnic | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

...Sullivan Show (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Renata Tebaldi and Richard Tucker sing an excerpt from La Bohème, but only a snippet because Ed & Co. think good mu sic is scaring away audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Mar. 11, 1957 | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

Current public interest in medicine, its techniques and advances, has trickled down even unto youngsters in the third and fourth grades, and I can daily produce a fistful of (usually frantic) letters requesting "all you known (sic) about Rh, blood plasma, hypothermia and 'that blue-baby' operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 7, 1957 | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...Hofeld's attitude and in fact the general dubious methods of the entire campaign only confirm a previously held conviction that the Student Council at Harvard College is nothing more than a band of low, cheap, conniving pirates totally unprincipled in its savagery of extortion, a tight cliche (sic) which, after carefully replacing the windows in its office with mirrors, spends many pleasurable hours looking out and formulating student opinion. (formulating is really too strong a word to be used here as it implies a thinking process...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ANSWER TO AL | 10/9/1956 | See Source »

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