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Pages three, four, and five of this issue indicate to some degree how well the Houses have maintained this balance. In amongst the statistics, enumerations, and miscellancy, the essential differences between the Houses are outlined, some of them trivial, some important, and some undesirable. The differences in tone and traditions, in the interests and types comprising their memberships, are all to the good...
Jacobsen said that the poll was apparently so trivial that he saw no harm in replying at the time. "Now I see that answering was obviously a mistake," he stated...
...reasons for this inadequacy are difficult to pinpoint. The trouble is not in the report's conclusions though many of them verge on platitudes, nor with its facts, though they are often trivial. The report's deepest fault is its lack of any clearly developed point of view against which the facts and conclusions can be measured...
...circ. 6,500), a fortnightly tabloid which one admirer calls "a New Yorker with its shoes off." For its pheasant-under-glass audience, the homey Crier dishes up an oatmeal fare. It treats everybody in Hollywood Hills as if they were small-town neighbors. The Crier reports their most trivial doings at home-and treats Reader Charlie Chaplin the same as his postman-and it pointedly ignores their outside accomplishments. When a subscriber wins an Academy Award, it isn't news for the Crier. But when Reader Irene Dunne traps a skunk in her house, it is. The Crier...
...history. He fired the brutish captain of guards and six other sadistic "screws," sternly prohibited the use of clubs, lashes, straps and hoses. He closed up the "hole" -a dungeon of airless, lightless, unfurnished, iron-doored stone cells into which convicts were thrown as punishment for even the most trivial offenses. San Quentin still shaved prisoners' heads and dressed them in numbered uniforms. Duffy abolished both practices. Men were fed out of buckets. Duffy installed a cafeteria and hired a dietitian...