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...Every man now affiliated with the University will be contacted," said Campbell last night, as he outlined the organization of solicitors. With almost 100 men working in the College alone, each entry will have its own shoulder-tapper, who reports to a House or dormitory captain. In addition, a collection desk will be maintained at Widener Library from 1:30 to 6 o'clock today through Friday...
Divorced. Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson, 65, famed dapper tapper; by Fannie Clay Robinson; after 20 years; in Reno...
Even that billion-dollar till-tapper Jesse Jones knows there is not enough money lying around loose to take the squeeze off the whole food business. Last week he began scouting around Congress to test the chances of an open-faced subsidy bill. Washington guesses the annual cost of subsidies at $500,000,000 to $2,000,000,000. For the first three months of the new fiscal year OPA unofficially thinks just under $300,000,000 will be needed. But nobody knows how fast the need for subsidies will snowball as more and more costs slip out of line...
...stood by the Fence in front of Durfee on the old campus). At the stroke of 5, senior members of the societies, wearing their pins, black ties and blue suits, march through the crowd, tap their men. A tappee hustles (see cut) to his room, followed closely by his tapper, or shakes his head (refusal). Each society picks 15. Tapping usually ends when the Battell Chapel clock strikes 6, but in 1936 Wolf's Head, turned down by 17 tappees, went on tapping long after dark to fill its quota...
Palestine's troubles this summer shattered the eucalyptus-shaded calm of Tabgha Hospice. Tourists kept away, and times became lean for businesslike Father Täpper. Worse, he had a cancer, was operated on at Tiberias. Last month Father Tapper made ready to retire to the land where he was born some 60 years ago. World War I he had escaped. Last week Father Täpper was due in Cologne, in his native Rhineland, to rest his old bones-just as the French and German guns began their restless muttering along the Western Front...