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Gary Cooper, cast as a kind of seafaring vagabond, alights on the island, where a missionary of unspecified denomination (Barry Jones) has set up a kind of puritan police state that would have made Calvin's Geneva look like Las Vegas. The natives are marched to church by club-wielding wardens, bronzed maidens must be fully clothed at all times, and boys and girls who go swimming together are flogged. In this unhappy Eden, Cooper soon starts a-rebellion that is visually a lot more interesting than any saloon brawl in which he ever thrashed a bunch of cattle...
...managed to do quite well in it and to consider that The CRIMSON was our major educative enterprise. Indeed I could say of myself that I fied to The CRIMSON because I was bored with the curriculum. And one of the innovations of our period, the so-called student vagabond column, which criticized courses and commented on them, was based on our desire to float around among a number of different courses in the hope at last of turning up a stimulating man. Now that I am on the other side of the academic fence, I realize that we must...
...also saw the first Student Vagabond column. Starting originally as merely a guide to local lectures. Vag later switched to a stream of consciousness style, making the feature a sort of "A Portrait of the Crimed as a Young...
...words," he wrote 25 years later, "can express the secret agony of my soul as I sunk into this companionship ... I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a little vagabond...
Married. Rudolf Friml, 67, Bohemian-born composer of schmalzy light operas (The Vagabond King, Rose Marie, The Firefly); and Kay Ling, 39, his Chinese-American secretary; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in San Francisco...