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Since that effort, the College has settled down to more staid Pogo riots, but in the past week other schools have taken up the newest college fad as the perfect outlet for blowing off pre-exam steam...
Yale started up a team two years ago, and a match which the Crimson played against them last May was written up by B.B.C. correspondent Allstair Cooke in Britain's staid national daily, the "Manchester Guardian...
...thing about Novelist Erskine Caldwell: he plays no regional favorites. He sniffs out fictional meanness and degeneracy with the zest of a Berkshire in a barnyard, and he imagines them as readily in staid old New England as he does in the meaner stretches of Georgia. Actually the region doesn't matter. By now, Caldwell's characters are not so much recognizable people as mass-produced toys which squeak set speeches and make appropriate gestures when wound up. In Episode in Palmetto (1950) he blessedly called a halt to the "cyclorama of Southern life" that got its start...
...Lavender Hill Mob. Alec Guinness in a bright British farce about a staid bank employee who satisfies the criminal yearnings of a lifetime (TIME...
Died. Charles E. Scribner III, 62, since 1932 head of the staid publishing house founded in 1846 by his grandfather; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Despite the house's distinguished list of authors (e.g., F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe), Scribner officially insisted that "by far the most important thing" it ever published was its 1928 Dictionary of American Biography...