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Died. Sir George Oliver Colthurst, 68, owner of Blarney Castle and its famed Blarney Stone; of heart disease; in Blarney, County Cork, Ireland. Scholars are uncertain whether the Stone's ability to impart eloquent persuasiveness to all who kiss it began as a folk legend or a pressagent's idea. Whatever its source, the story spread until it gave a word to the language, a handsome yearly revenue to the castle's owners. Likeliest story: legend was inspired by Cormach McDermod Carthy, an early iyth Century occupant of the castle, for his verbal skill at harassing Queen...
England is described in later issues as "unrecognizably neurotic Britain, disloyal to the West" and "uncertain friend clawing at a lost liberty of action, and repeating the mentality of Munich." France is the land where "isms in painting grow like hydra heads from the withering body of dollar greed and frustration." The United Nations is depicted as "a typically frivolous 'liberal' improvisation, a pretentious and. . . dangerous instrumentality of world order...
...election committee is uncertain what action it will take, if any. In the the event it decides to disqualify guilty parties, there is a strong possibility that remaining candidates will not number more than ten, the number to be elected...
Reasons given for this change were that many potential candidates were unable to run because of speeded-up war marriages and uncertain plans for the future. Miss Heaton added that the duties of council president have "grown so that they preclude other activities." Steps are being taken to lessen the pressure of the job. One such step has been to relieve the vice-president of her current duties supervising Drumbeats and Song, so that she may aid the President...
...still uncertain what effect the failure to obtain nude models will have on the Club's existence. The group almost became extinct three years ago when an officer was disciplined for using a nude model without University permissions. It returned to activity last fall, and soon got permission to have nude models...