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MaryBeth Thomaselli, a special transfer student from Vassar who was swimming her first meet of the season, had an outstanding day. Swimming the 50-yd, and 100-yd, breaststroke, Thomaselli established pool records in both, taking the first in 34.3 and the second in 1:13.6. She also swam a leg on the record-setting medley relay, and by swimming in the meet is eligible to participate in the Easterns in early March...
...simpler, journalistic style of punning was created by the Algonquin Round Table of the '20s and '30s. Dubbed the Vicious Circle, it became Prohibition's bottlefield, where columnists tailed their wags and reported puns the instant they were composed. When a Vassar girl eloped, Playwright George S. Kaufman announced that she had "put the heart before the course." Dorothy Parker confessed that in her own poetry she was always "chasing Rimbauds." Alexander Woollcott knew of "a cat hospital where they charged $4 a weak purr." Heywood Broun, drinking a bootleg liquor, sighed, "Any port in a storm...
Joining the Boston district in the competition are "A", "B" and "C" teams from Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore and Canada. Yale, Trinity, Princeton and Vassar will be fielding collegiate squads along with the Boston team...
...many Yale men were unable to accept women as intellectual and daily companions, individuals and institutions had to change to meet the new demands, while carefully-bred roles collapsed over breakfast coffee. "I had forgotten how to talk to a boy when I looked terrible," declared a transfer from Vassar...
Torregrecca (1969), Miss Cornelisen's first book-length portrait of this living past, was a small classic. A documentary written like a novel, it dramatized a cultural collision that set a slightly brash ex-Vassar girl trying to organize nursery centers against a cast of southern Italians as passively resistant as one of their mountain roads. Vendetta of Silence is a novel written like a documentary. "At the request of my publishers and my lawyer, I have agreed to call this a novel," the author comments in a prefatory note to what, among other things, is a murder story...