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...Yale Victory Dance" the poster shouted to Vag in big blue letters as he loped down the entry steps on his way to the Pro. He crossed the courtyard and waded through several piles of leaves before the proclamation reached his inner self, already plagued by calculations of punch bowl capacity. Several steps further and he was saying to himself, over and over, "Yale Victory Dance." Several steps more and he stopped dead, thunderstruck. Yale victory indeed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...Vag tenderly slit the top of the envelope and turned it over. No stamps. Disfranchised for lack of postage, Vag thought, and wondered how many others had been affected the same way. No one had ever warned him about the six cents Poll Tax administered by the Post Office Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/3/1948 | See Source »

Here it is the day after election and I've been marked absent, Vag mused. I never got a chance to Discuss the Merits of the Democratic/Republican Administration, pick one, five minutes. I wasn't permitted to argue the Advantages of Changing Horses in Midstream, with Special Reference to Your Reading of the Past Four Years. I wasn't able to answer, in a series of well-executed, concise, X's, the biggest poser of them all: Truman or Dewey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/3/1948 | See Source »

Strictly speaking (an unusual habit for Vag), he had been an auditor for the past four years. He had taken a few notes, clipped some campaign speeches and studded his lapel with a button or two. But he had written no Congressmen, signed no petitions. For the most part, he had only sat and listened, a government auditor with his ear miles off the ground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/3/1948 | See Source »

...known how to vote. Pulling his ballot out of its envelope, he noticed it was just as he left it seven days ago. The names were still as empty as the circles beside them were bare. Most of the country had pencilled an X in the circle under President; Vag took out his pen and entered the letters V A G in the ring. He could vote for himself any time and best of all, he didn't need a stamp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/3/1948 | See Source »

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