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Dates: during 1940-1949
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February 29 did not pass without casualties for Harvard students unwary enough to venture out of the Yard yesterday, as Radcliffe and Wellesley took advantage of their prerogatives to pounce upon Robert H. Davis '41 and R. Liewellyn Brill '42, chasing the one up a tree, and proposing to the other 47 times for a new intercollegiate record...
...thousands of old newspapers, some dating back to 1900, which were stacked in the rooms and halls of her house, crammed into broken windows. Bottles, broken furniture, boxes, cartons also filled her house. The roof was peeling, the paint had long since flaked from the outside walls. Hedges grew tree-high around the yard. Rigged behind one of the doors was a bundle of newspapers, a rope and a hammer, so arranged that if anyone entered without Miss Claudius' permission (never granted), the hammer would fall on the intruder's head. In the warm months, as soon...
...Hasty Pudding Club, which each year elects 45 sophomores as Harvard's social cream. The final clubs pick most of their members from the Pudding. The Pore is most likely to elect the sons and relatives of old Porkies, closely examines each candidate's family tree. But congeniality counts as much as pedigree, and the three to 18 members whom the Pore elects from each class must be jolly good fellows. (Its definition of good fellowship, the leftist Harvard Progressive recently remarked, "rests on a good liquor capacity and a full agreement on the meaning of the word...
Today, having got rid of some of its financial oddments like Checker Cab, ATCO owns majority control of New York Shipbuilding Co., the largest single interest (28.5%) in sick Auburn Automobile Co. It also spreads through the flying business like the branches of a banyan tree. This is because of its working (29.7%) control of Aviation Corp., which in turn owns outright a third-layer subsidiary, Aviation Manufacturing Co. AMCO owns Stinson (military and commercial planes), Lycoming (engines) and 60% stock control of Vultee (military planes). Furthermore, its parent Aviation Corp. owns potential working control of American Airlines, through...
Frankly, Vag was up a tree. Four thousand romantic souls were crowded around the "Greeting Card" counter in most unromantic proximity, and there was an imminent danger that the riot squad would have to be called out to resuscitate an aggressive little lady rapidly languishing in the midst of the press. Four determined looking Radcliffe girls were badgering a defenseless and bewildered football player into a neutral corner. And Vag doggedly circled the outskirts of the mob, looking for a weak spot to assail. Around him reared the walls of the edifice Mr. Woolworth had built of all the little...