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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brookline schoolteacher, Miss Jean Law, informed the CRIMSON last night that the spent most of Thursday, October 24, with Thomas H. West, Jr. '50, the day before he vanished from sight, but that neither the regular police not the two private detectives engaged by Mr. Thomas H. West Sr. to find his missing Freshman son have contacted...
Police confirmed that West was in Hopedale Thursday afternoon, one day before he dropped out of sight, but that he saw neither of his parents. Malloy, however, said he had held a brief telephone conversation with him at that time regarding the new house his family is building. "He sounded normal to me," said the chief, "not at all like the amnesia victim that West's medical record might indicate...
Forget the specters. But don't forget the spectacles that men and women all too often make of themselves. The spectacle that diplomats make when they wrangle in the UN, for recreation or the record. The spectacle that housewives make in the meat lines, a sight to make one wonder from which side of the counter the pork is being served...
...onetime locker-boy for the first U.S. court-tennis court (in Boston), he taught himself the ancient, highly specialized game (played in large, complicated, enclosed courts, with pear-shaped racquets and complex rules), revolutionized classic court style with his smashing drives ("When I get a fair sight of the ball, I hit it, and I hit it damned hard"). Tom Pettitt made both court-tennis history and legend, in his heyday was reputed to have defeated many an opponent while using a bottle instead of a racquet. In 1885 he won the world's championship, successfully defended his title...
...featuring "Hot Lips" Loring, "Slush Pump" Pines, and "Spanker" Spencer holds forth on Wednesday evenings. The Gillespieites under "Rebop" Whitehouse give out on Thursdays. Holden Chapel, a building which has seen nearly everything during its two hundred and two years of existence is destined for at least one new sight when these two groups introduce it to le jazz hot this week. Perhaps the freshmen living in the vicinity could arrange to go to a movie or something on those evenings...