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Faculty members made frequent contributions to the staid Crime of the 20's; by 1925, the paper-prof relations had finally become unbearably cordial, and The Confidential Guide to Courses was born. In the beginning, the Confy Guide was a part of the regular issue; it was a separate booklet first in 1936, also the year of the first CRIMSON Telephone Directory...
...shows for not-too-distant boarding schools -Andover, Exeter, St. Paul's and Groton. He bought records for musicales at the museum, engaged orchestras traveling between Boston and New York for cut-rate Sunday concerts. Worcester was one of the first U.S. museums to exhibit foreign films. Some staid Worcesterites thought it "too cheapening for words," but a lot of the unstaid began to come in for a look. At first, some of them came just for the movies. When a staffer gloated over the fact that 1,000 people had come to see a movie, Taylor sighed...
Died. Madge Gates Wallace, 90, mother-in-law of President Harry Truman; at the White House in Washington. A staid member of one of the leading families of Independence, Mo., she looked on Harry Truman's early political career with misgivings, spent much time in her later years at the White House and Blair House, but never became completely reconciled to politics or politicians. As recently as 1948 she refused to allow the President's political friends in the living room of the Truman home (which she owned) in Independence, but let a few of them...
...Staid Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, 61, is a new kind of President; he is neither a general nor a lawyer, but a bureaucrat. His nickname is Cara de Calavera, or Skullface; though he looks like Actor Boris Karloff, in his make-up there is a little Milquetoast: in movies, he obeys no-smoking rules even when everyone around him is puffing away. His favorite pastime is dominoes, though he also likes to watch baseball and stroll to street-corner stands to sip tamarind juice...
...social life, shuns the theater, movies, TV, but is a wide reader. A wealthy man (his Amerada stock alone is worth $8,000,000), he makes no show of it, wears a somber uniform of dark clothes, has no car, shuttles to his Manhattan office by subway from the staid old Plaza Hotel, where he has lived for 25 years. "I'm not gregarious," he says. "I don't have many friends and no particular friends. I have business associates, but no personal friends. I don't go in for that sort of thing...