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...number of Freshmen who can bring girls assures its success. The following Freshman have been appointed to the committee; Nelson D. Batchelder, Jr., James Bernstein, Morrill Cole, Ralph Davis, Stephen Davis, Donn, Dugan, Bernard Edison, John B. Jones, Jr., Donald Louiria, Buel S. Smith, Richard VanKleeck, and Conont Webb...
Half a century ago such acute, social-minded critics as Sidney and Beatrice Webb mistakenly believed that an enlightened British electorate would produce socialism by communal action. Brash young Bernard Shaw, when asked how long it would take to get English socialism into working order, answered airily: "A fortnight would be ample for the purpose...
...PATTY WEBB HOPKINS...
...Yankee bosses brimmed with dollars and ideas. Supplying a heavy piece of change was slender, soft-spoken Del Webb, ex-minor-league pitcher who 16 years ago moved to Phoenix, Ariz., parlayed a saw and hammer into a million-dollar construction business. The other big moneyman was Marine Corps Captain Dan Topping, heir to a tin-plate fortune and owner of the Brooklyn Football Tigers.* The man with the ideas was baseball's brilliant screwball, redheaded Colonel Leland Stanford ("Larry") MacPhail -who aging ex-Boss Ed Barrow once said would buy the Yankees "over my dead body...
Colonel Jim was at his best with the rest of us at the Center dance last week. Thanks to Mrs. Clarke the affair was a complete success with Keith Richards, Jack Trumbauer, and Ralph Rolling the more conspicuous figures on the "Paul Revere." Webb Smith and Charlie Ritzen are leading their art appreciation gang down to soak in some Shakespeare this week...