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...Thus the squib on Fine Arts 13 may read: Full personal introduction to arts and sciences performed by Fowie, Coolidge, and Clive Inc.--Darkness at Noon...
...long-suffering Pa & Ma Delahanty begin to find around the house lists of premeditated behavior, e.g., "Useful Gags for Craziness. I. Clothes, A. Shoes, 1. Unmatched." One of her projects is to wait until she gets on the school bus before putting on her shoes. This gets her a squib in the school paper and passing fame as the author of "Delahanty's Law." But her gags have a way of backfiring; people laugh, but not necessarily in admiration...
...such treatment is evidently insufficient for Princeton's Homer Smith. Not content with a six-paragraph squib about him in its football brochure, the Princeton department of public relations has published a five-page biographical tribute to "a tremendous competitor who is determined to excel in whatever he does...
...hope of a squib for his column, however, O'Hara sat down after getting the lather off his chin and wrote a letter asking what the Senator thought of the new prexy. Harvardman O'Hara expected nothing more than a note saying McCarthy thought Neighbor Pusey was a fine fellow. But to O'Hara's amazement, McCarthy saw Red. He wrote...
...three articles appeared in the CRIMSON the Monday after Yaeger scored the 41st point in the Yale football game--one on the front page, one on the sports page, and a poem. "Give Thanks," in the editorial columns. However, Life gave the CRIMSON credit only for its brief Tuesday squib, and failed to mention the Monday write...