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...group. The committee still felt, however, that the football concert was the most appropriate place for the Harvard Glee Club to perform as a glee club. This decision raised several problems, the most pressing of which was housing for the Yale women. I related this problem to Mr. Heath whereupon the executive committee of the Yale mixed group suggested to Harvard that the Yale women be housed by Yale alumni in the Cambridge area...
...three winners in the boys' division that year were dressed as an Indian, a cowboy, and the last wore a minutely detailed copy of a Special Forces uniform. A sweating man in tuxedo lined the three up in front of a battery of Chamber of Commerce and news photographers, whereupon the contestants blinked mutely like pole-axed calves as the flashbulbs burst and the shutters began snapping like a den of rattlers...
...There is one marvelous scene in which the reservations director-the protocol here is as intricate as that of a state funeral-turns toward the camera to announce the name of each arriving celebrity. "Julie Prowse." "Mrs. Xavier Cougart." Exactly like a herald announcing the nobility to the court. Whereupon each celebrity turns, smiles, and mumbles something complimentary about Elvis. For its not enough to be Julie Prowse or Mrs. Xavier Cougart, the fact has to be verified on film and applauded by an audience. The camera itself glories in the terrible tyranny it holds over these people...
...return to old-style college life, Weld dormitory erupted with challenging chants of "Matthews sucks" around 11 p. m. Matthews was quick to respond with "Weld eats shit," whereupon students threw open windows, made noise, turned up stereos, blew horns, gave cheers for their favorite physical process and watched the rain fall...
...story was that they were new in the state, had three children but no money. Without even showing identification, they were signed up for the whole program on the spot. Another presented herself at a local office and though not asked for identification, volunteered to present a rent receipt. Whereupon she left the office, only to return with a bogus receipt written on a scrap of paper bag by Mrs. Whitner...