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...expected cry of pain arose from the Ivy Circuit this week when several Ivy colleges got a curt snub from the Big Three. The athletic mouthpieces of these venerable institutions had their feelings hurt in no small way by Messrs. Conant, Griswold, and Dodds, who issued their athletic purity statement last Sunday as a Triparte Pact. The pained outcries come from two football camps...
About 100 West Pointers were present, most of them from the debating team and the 90-man Glee Club. The Harvard Band, in order to return the snub, greeted the absence of the Army Band with a huge question mark. The Band also executed a parody on the practice of unlimited substitution in football...
Meanwhile, the Peking Reds continue to snub His Majesty's Government, refuse to exchange ambassadors. Peking uses British recognition to embarrass London's Foreign Office, and Britain gets no compensating advantage...
...right wing of the allied advance last week, the Turkish brigade in Korea ran into Communist fire from a snub-nosed hill. Looking like warriors of another age, in their greatcoats and sweeping mustaches, the Turks applied their standard solution-they fixed bayonets and charged. The Chinese...
While the Communists were still muttering over the implications of this, David hit them again, out of his knowledge that Moscow had sent Professor Davidenkov, Russian heart specialist, to attend ailing Maurice Thorez. Next morning every registered doctor in Paris received a Paix et Liberté pamphlet. "A snub to the medical profession!" cried the tract. "Are French doctors unworthy or inefficient?" Yelped the Communist press: "Neo-Goebbelism . . . David is a Wall Street pawn...