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...Russians Are Coming." In their chartered, air-conditioned bus, tailed by more than 60 newsmen, the Russians crisscrossed Iowa for days. "The Russians are coming" became a popular cry. At Guy Stover's farm near Reinbeck, a lone demonstrator turned up with a sign: "There is no freedom in Russia." Mrs. Stover burst into tears, crying: "We wanted everything nice and friendly." A local minister wrested the sign away before the Russians noticed...
...been a "very great personal honor; when a marshal takes off his ceremonial dagger and gives it to you, that's something." Next day the Eisenhower family went to the Abilene cemetery to look at the graves of the President's parents. David Jacob and Ida Stover Eisenhower. The plain granite headstone marked "Eisenhower" was surrounded by dry, brown grass, and a worried frown crossed Ike's face. "Can't we do something about this old buffalo grass?" he asked...
...Charles. He sums up his feeling with: "I'm just a creeping socialist, and you can be sure as shootin' that the next TVA-like project I sponsor will be a dam to head off the Charles at West Newton." Not neglecting baseball, G. E. Vaillant has, written "Dink Stover at Sarasota," in which the fabled athlete tries to make the major leagues in the best Yale manner. He fails...
Entombed deep in the recesses of Firestone Library, Princeton has its own literary versions of Yale's Dink Stover and Harvard's Iron Duke, Books like A Princetonian and Adventures of a Freshman, forewarned the inexperienced, nineteenth century gentleman of perils and pleasures on the Nassau campus. 'The Victorian veneer of old-time literature has not entirely disappeared. A modern view of the Princeton campus reveals that Gothic and greeness live...
...whack on the back that will send 90 of them to the six great Senior societies. William Howard Taft had sweated it out (he went Skull & Bones); so had his son Robert (Bones), and Robert's political adversary, Dean Acheson (Scroll & Key). Even that fictional stalwart. Dink Stover (Bones), had trembled at the thought of Tap Day: "The morning was interminable, a horror. They did not even joke about the approaching ordeal. No one was so sure of election but that the possible rejection of some chum cast its gloom over...