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Percussion, Radcliffe's four-page weekly newspaper, has ceased publication after losing a six-month struggle against Radcliffe apathy. Student participation on the paper has waned to "almost nothing," Janet Webster '60, president of the Radcliffe Student Government Association, said yesterday...
...Radcliffe students present were Louise N. Bell '59 of the HDC, Janet Webster '60, president of the Radcliffe SGA, and Martha E. Miller '59, a CRIMSON editor. Harvard students were Bryce E. Nelson '59, a former president of the CRIMSON, Ralph T. McLean '59, former president of the Harvard Yearbook Publications, and Harlow Russell III '60, president of the Pierian Sodality...
...find himself sharing a British beach resort with contenders in an American-type "Beautiful Babies" contest, for a New York publisher to be found naked in the hothouse of a dwelling on Wimbledon Common, or even for a member of Edwardian London's Drones Club to consult Webster's Dictionary rather than the Oxford. Victorian and Edwardian euphemisms such as "bally" and "ruddy" work their way into the tale of a British knight who once "allowed some hornswoggling highbinder to stick him with . . . dud Smelly River Ordinaries"*-and, of course, there are the usual Wodehousian references...
...Judge Webster Thayer, who presided over the famous murder trial, was attacked by Schlesinger for having refused a retrial for the men when new evidence appeared. "Thayer's court-room innuendoes," he also claimed, "were the chief factor in persuading the jury to condemn...
...Lulu" is a complete success, and would be so even without the delightful gymnastics which Amyn Khan adds. Maureen Needham's choreography generally is satisfactory and sometimes, as in the "Abdication Waltz," eminently successful. The costuming, handled by Theoni Aldredge, is professional and more. The scenery, the province of Webster Lithgow, is economical and very good...