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Rumor shrouds the tombs thicker than their sagging ivy wines. Campus reports say that Skull and Bones men will leave the room when their society is mentioned; that firemen once entered Berzelius to douse a blaze and had to be accepted as members; that hair-raising and lascivious practices occur inside the meeting-place vaults. Actually the "spooks"--as sour-grapes outsiders call them--take their membership very seriously. Henry L. Stimson always stayed with fellow Bonesmen in Paris, rather than with the ambassador; Professor F. O. Matthiessen laid his Bones Key on a farewell note before jumping...
Returning to earth, Joe King's "G.A" at 190 Third Avenue is tops for inexpensive German-American food, thick brew in thicker glasses, and community singing. Lum Fong, of all things, specializes in Chinese food rocking with authenticity...
...save the hope of peace . . . Before us also lies opportunity for drift, for irresolution, for effort feebly made . . . The choice is ours . . . There is no longer any question: Will the United Nations survive? . . . This question has been answered ... by United Nations action against aggression in Korea. Blood is thicker than...
...Necessities. Jeremiah enters Kentucky politics as a "Reliefer," feels uneasy about the underhanded tactics of his party, but is caught up in a web from which he can never escape. After Fort abandons "Relief," his former cronies publicly denounce him as Rachel's seducer. The dirt becomes even thicker when Jeremiah mysteriously receives a circular signed by Fort in which Rachel is charged with having given herself to a Negro slave. For Jeremiah, pressed by the inhuman necessities of politics and the all-too-human taunts of his wife, there is no longer a choice...
...ensuing months, Jimmy Byrnes kept talking and supporters kept coming, thicker than bullbats around the chimneys of his Spartanburg home on a summer evening. They thought he ought to run for governor. In October, Jimmy Byrnes issued a firmly equivocal statement: "If I conclude that as governor I could make a contribution ... I will be a candidate. If I do not so conclude, I will not be a candidate." There was another question, he added: "Whether one, as governor, could secure the cooperation of other governors in arousing the people of the nation to hold the line,.against further encroachment...