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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scrutiny by providing Mayfair with its best gossip. Sometime ago one of his showgirl friends shocked London by climbing into the coronation chair at Westminster Abbey for a publicity gag. Several weeks ago the enterprising peer titillated the town again and got his latest business off to a good start by sending out invitations that read: "The Marquess of Milford Haven invites your company at the opening of a new launderette in Hammersmith." He avoided the ever-present snares of bachelordom on both sides of the Atlantic. "I steered clear of dowagers who might have had ideas," he explains...
...Crimson's voluminous injury list showed signs of shrinkage at yesterday's practice as Captain Howie Houston ran through signals at his regular guard position. Duke Sedgwick will start the game in Chief Bender's place, but the latter may see some service during the long afternoon. John Coan, who suffered extensive damage at the hands of Columbia, is back in serviceable condition, but Sam Butler is still limping as a result of last week...
...postcard reproduction. On the canals you couldn't see the boat for the cows. The Dutch canals run merrily through mile after mile of cow pasture, and all the cows spend most of their time sloping fore-and-aft on a dike and watching people sail by. We started mooing at the cows to break the monotony of higher-than-land-level sailing, but one day we mooed, tacked, and tried to start the engine at the same time, and created a shoreline stampede that ended with us being grossly insulted by a sturdy farmer fortunately isolated by 20 yards...
Also, the International Tours sponsored by the national command and sparked from Cambridge were a conspicuous success. Still to be proved, however, in terms of its value to students, is the purchase card discount system which got off to a slow start last spring...
Lefty Joe Hatten (18-8) may start game three on the basis of September form...