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...been common practice to categorize the Radcliffe girl as intelligent, occasionally attractive, but generally plain. As one wag put it, "You only look at a Radcliffe girl once." This has been modified somewhat recently, but the second annual "Drumbeats and Song" production in Sanders Theatre Friday night presented something entirely new. There are those among the Annex group who are talented...
Neither by Wig-Wag nor Smoke. John L. Lewis, who loves nothing so much as an uproar, composed his face in a lugubrious cast. "All American workers," he said piously, are entitled to as big a raise as he had got for his miners. "To restrict American labor to a miserable 10% increase ... is an unwise, arbitrary action ... destructive . . . disrupting to the productive economy...
Your excellent article [on the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, affirming the right of Communists to remain silent about their affiliations- TIME, Dec. 25] makes it clear that the line of decision of the court as to Communism strongly resembles the wag's poetic description of a snake trail...
...Ohio last week Hildy proved that she could thaw her audience (paying a top of $3.50) even in the frigid atmosphere of an armory. Flitting from microphone to piano in front of her band, combing her upswept hairdo with both hands (an act which once caused a West Coast wag to nickname her "Miss Armpits"), Hildy got them all right into the act as usual...
...watched the Freshmen start out waving their caps to the singing of the Red and Blue in unison with the rest of the students, only to wind up out of cadence. Now, it doesn't seem too much to ask men of college calibre to make a simple wig-wag motion with the arm in time with everybody else--especially with the cheer leaders standing right in front of them...