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...about it," said one of the dance committee chairman, "but we had the Yale Dance at the Commander Hotel and were able to have bar facilities over there." Dudley's dances are a good step beyond the wild Cabaret parties of several years ago that burned the now-disappearing stigma on the commuter. They are still more informal, and perhaps louder, but a change for the better is clear. "We're beginning to feel a little more confident," one committee member stated, "now that we can make money on our dances and have some good mixers with the girl schools...
...Overseers as Honorary Associates of Dudley Hall: Robert F. Bradford '23, former Governor of Massachusetts; Joseph S. Clark Jr. '23, Major of Philadelphia; and William L. White, a noted writer. But the impact of all these improvements ahs not, as yet, been forceful enough to completely knock away the stigma long attached to the commuter...
...Black's plan is to secure IFC's money with debentures, a cross between stocks and bonds which pay a fixed interest, fluctuate in value, represent ownership in the company but carry no voting rights. With this device, rarely used in international finance, IFC can avert the stigma of creeping socialism (it will have no voice in management) while realizing capital gains. Black expects most debentures to be convertible into common stock, so that IFC will find a ready market when it is ready to take its profits out of a smoothly running new business...
Handsome and dashing Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, first Earl Mountbatten of Burma,* had known many triumphs since his father's downfall. The stigma of his German ancestry had long since been erased in the process of anglicizing Battenberg to Mountbatten. Though once dismissed as a mere playboy, he had had the satisfaction in World War II of seeing his superiors seethe as he was plucked from beneath them to be made first an acting admiral and later Supreme Allied Commander for Southeast Asia...
...were written, a plaque was unveiled, thus restoring to the playwright, after some 60 years of disgrace in England, a semblance of respectability. Its terse inscription: "Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, wit and dramatist, lived here." On hand were Wilde's son, Vyvyan Holland (who recently described his inherited stigma in Son of Oscar Wilde-TIME, Sept. 27), Actor Michael Redgrave, Poets T. S. Eliot and Sacheverell Sitwell, and Lord Cecil Douglas, grandson of the unforgiving ninth Marquess of Queensberry, whose grim insistence that Wilde go behind bars was the prime force that landed him, convicted of sodomy, in Reading...