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...dishwashers and machine-shop foremen, a maneuver he brought off with the hearty air of the big boss at the annual company outing, made up for his rival's helicopter by singing second bass in a quartet with three Yale undergraduates at major public appearances. They sang the Whiffenpoof Song, though some of his backers thought he should shush his Yale connections. He pronounced Bowles (Yale '24) the philosopher of leftism, Senator Brien McMahon (Yale LL.B. '27) the spokesman, and Benton (Yale '21) the captive, announced that his campaign was based on "Korea, Communism, confusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Meet the People | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...Symphony (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Soloist Robert Merrill singing Rossini's aria Largo al Factotum, and Whiffenpoof Song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Aug. 22, 1949 | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...Everywhere we have gone, we have had a rip-roaring time," the Britishers declared yesterday after the Debate Council had shown them the College. "We've sung "The Whiffenpoof Song' with the Yale debaters at Mory's, and we had our first glimpse of the Pacific after our match with California, but right here in Cambridge we have been made to feel more at home than anywhere else on the trip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Britishers Like U.S. from Mory's to Pacific | 1/20/1948 | See Source »

...Rudy Vallee, who made these words of Yale's Whiffenpoof Song nationally famous, lost his way? Last week he tried to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: As Time Goes By | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...rowdier patronage of the Oxford Grille and Cronin's Bar. White-coated waiters circulate through small smoky rooms amidst photographs of athletic greats of years gone by, and generations of Elis have left their marks on the old wooden tables. Focal point of the club, of course, is the Whiffenpoof table, where congregate those who made Mory's famous, the names of all past Whiffenpoofs being stylishly inscribed thereon...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Elis of Two Centuries Shun Ways of Crimson's Radicals | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

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