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...scholarship rests on the idea that "the voice is the surest index to character." Vincent got his idea back in 1913, when at the age of twelve he thrust a cumbersome Edison machine under Teddy Roosevelt's mustache and begged him to speak. In his oddly manful squeak, T.R. advised all boykind: "Don't flinch, don't foul and hit the line hard!" With that coup, Vincent began recording every sound in sight. After Yale ('22), he spent ten years working for Edison himself, eventually inherited a voxologist's gold mine-Edison...
...sheets. In this movie version, directed by Robert Wise, the specter is slightly censored-what's left is just the usual commercial spirit. Whenever it appears, the violins on the sound track start to didder, doors open and shut by themselves, people stare about in terror and squeak: "The house, it's alive!" The picture, it's dead...
Crimson followers will be particularly interested in the game because the Knights enter the jousts next week in Cambridge. Should Rutgers win, this interest could change to real concern. Probably it won't, though, as Princeton will squeak by with a one or two point victory...
...Harvard track team was almost too complacent at the Greater Boston Intercollegiate track championships yesterday, but a fantastic performance by sophomore John Ogden helped the Crimson squeak out a three point victory over Boston College...
...generous M.I.T. pitcher and some superb Crimson relief hurling saved Harvard from the ignominy of a loss to the Engineers yesterday. The varsity came up with five runs on two hits in the eighth inning to squeak past the Engineers...