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Lowell continued on its late-season climb up the basketball ladder yesterday, while Eliot House, top grin on the Straus trophy totem pole, split its double slate, dropping a tight basketball game to Dunster and drubbing the Kirkland House skaters at the Arena...
...Start at the bottom of the totem pole if you hope to break into radio," four experts told a job-seeking audience at Kirkland House last night. All speakers at the Placement Office's third Career Conference agreed that beginners can find virtually no openings in big-time stations...
Another lot of graduates will teach eighth grade general science, sixth grade geography, and seventh grade arithmetic come the fall. Low girl on the teaching totem pole reported that she would teach "things" to fourth graders in Pennsylvania...
Besides witches, whirligigs and a nine-foot Totem of Religion made out of three old railroad ties, the show included some 125 paintings, photographs and wall splotches by Surrealists and fellow travelers of 19 nations, including the top ones: Max Ernst, Hans Arp, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro, Man Ray. Many admirers of early Surrealism (such as Communist Louis Aragon) felt that the daft old horse had lost its kick. Notably absent: Giorgio de Chirico, now a noisy detractor of the movement, and Salvador Dali, unfrocked by orthodox Surrealists for being too frivolous and too commercial...
...McCarthy at their first-flush-of-fame best sparring with Baker and more delightfully with Bobby Clark. Even the W. C. Fields routine with McCarthy pales next to Clark's classic buffoonery. Each wheeze is on hand--"you fugitive from a picket fence," "you animated clothespin," "you talking totem pole"--but crisp as toast before that long-term contract with Chase and Sanborn...