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...candidates in the junior class election. They are Newell Mach of Adams, present Council treasurer, and Bred Stark of Dunster. Opening them will be Charles Boston of Dunster, Dick Dedds of Kirkland, Calvin Gross of Lowell, Broce G. Mertin of Dunster, Edward M. Streaser of Kirkland and Kenneth G. Swan of Kirkland...
...incumbents, Roger C. Ravel '56, the present House representative, and Allen Williams '57, a sophomore class representative, are running for Kirkland. House Representative against Doyle B. Garrett '56, Kenneth G. Swan '56, and a former Council member, Albert B. Levin...
...onlookers offered advice and encouragement, and Ike goodnaturedly bantered with them. On his first strike he lost both fish and fly. When the President brought a trout to net, an onlooker called: "Yeah, Ike." The stream, specially stocked with 500 Ibs. of trout by Ike's host, Bal Swan, provided fast action for the rest of the day. White House correspondents couldn't keep perfect tab on the President's catch because part of the time he was screened by boulders, bushes and trees. Next day the New York Times infuriated Press Secretary Jim Hagerty by saying...
Millionairess Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, 30, wife of sexagenarian Conductor Leopold Stokowski and self-admitted washout as an amateur actress at 16, starred before a sellout audience at Pennsylvania's Pocono Playhouse as the princess in Ferenc Molnar's The Swan. Consensus of the critics: "Nerveless poise." With Stoky's blessing, Gloria, mother of two and a painter of some commendable abstractions, suddenly found herself "enthusiastic about making the stage a career...
...starry stillness of an Arizona desert night," said Henry Fountain Ashurst, "or the scarlet glories of her blooming cactus, the petrified forest which leafed through its green millenniums, and put on immortality 7,000 years ago." That was in 1940 when Orator Ashurst, defeated for reelection, was delivering his swan song in the Senate. Last week, 14 years later, Ashurst, lively and loquacious as ever at 79, was still living in Washington. Widower Ashurst is a perennially popular extra man at the parties of Washington's wealthy widows, but he still longs for the starry stillness and the scarlet...