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...Thaxter Swan '45, chairman of the Council's extracurricular activities committee, explained that many voters were confused both by the placing of the hockey rink and auditorium together on the ballot, and ignorance of the fact that the proposed activities center would include a theater. Write-in votes for a theater, as well as ballots marked for auditorium on which the hockey rink was crossed out, were added to the activities center total, Swan said...
...spite of the confusion," Swan added, "student approval of the activities center, is clear." An analysis of the votes showed no difference between veteran and non-veteran opinion...
...Thaxter Swan '45 and his extra curricular affairs committee set up their poll as a direct result of a letter published in the Alumni Bulletin suggesting that Leverett Saltonstall's alumni War Memorial Committee "let the veterans decide...
Meanwhile undergraduate organizations have been unanimous in their endorsement of the proposed activities center. Swan's committee has sent out to all recognized extracurricular groups an inquiry on facilities now available and a call for complaints...
...After many a swan song, Manhattan's venerable old Murray Hill Hotel, a seedy symbol of the Mauve Decade, finally closed its doors. J. P. Morgan Sr. used to sip coffee in the Murray Hill's lobby; Mark Twain often used its decorous billiard room. Now its eight stories of brownstone will be torn down. In its place (on Park Avenue a block south of Grand Central) will go a 30-story office building...