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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rice Hotel a week before election. He won the election. Three campaigns later, however, he was defeated. One reason: he swung an umbrella at the publisher of a Houston newspaper who had threateningly brandished a letter-opener during a heated argument. "You just can't explain that sort of thing to the people," said Holcombe...
...legend has built up that Goodrich is a sort of Svengali; actually, he is a fine figure of a Naval Reserve officer with a quarterdeck voice and a manner to match. With him, Olivia has emphatically settled down. She has dropped all the friends of her fluttery, bachelor-girl days. When one of them (a middle-aged producer) recently tried to speak to her on the phone, he was informed that Mrs. Goodrich's former bachelor friends were no longer welcome. Said the dazed producer later: "What do I have to do to talk to her-get married...
...England, we use gummed labels and use the envelops over and over again. There seems to be great waste everywhere." The telephone had begun to ring again. I opened the door and asked rather foolishly if she had done much reading of American fiction? We were both sort of jumping up and down with impatience by now. The hotel maid came out in the hall to watch. "Oh my yes," replied Miss Cam to my question, "I much admire Dorothy Canfield and I read a novel about New Orleans--what was it? which I liked very much." She picked...
Arguments for some sort of freshman document are perfectly sound. Its chief value lies in its photographs, which enable men to look up familiar faces and widen acquaintances. But there is little use for two such records, especially when they are so alike and one does not appear until sophomore year. Of the two, the Register, coming while freshman year is still young, certainly is the more valuable...
...year, the Council has been considering some sort of concrete recommendation, hoping to apply it to the '52 Redbook. But the investigation has delayed so long that the '52 Redbook has been given the go-ahead, and any change in policy will have to wait another year. The Council now expects its report sometime next April. Dean Leighton, while supporting the Redbook, now indicates that he would be willing to consider a Council proposal to eliminate it. Under the circumstances, it seems only reasonable that the Council should recommend discontinuing the Redbook and consolidating freshman records into a more worthwhile...