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...Dame aux Camelias: frail, pale, hollow-eyed and languid. To be like this type, healthy and otherwise sensible young women dosed themselves with lemon juice and vinegar. The cult of pallor extended to men and crossed the ocean so that Poet Sidney Lanier was shocked by Walt Whitman's "healthy animality." Tom Moore quotes Byron before a mirror, saying: "I look pale. I should like to die of a consumption." "Why?" "Because the ladies would all say. 'Look at that poor Byron, how in teresting he looks in dying.' " Hot & Cold. Toward the end of the century...
From Walt Whitman to Lillian Smith, a distinguished company of artists have rated a place on Boston's official or unofficial blacklist. But to an ever-growing extent, their works are today being joined by such efforts as "Murderous Gangster" comics, "girlie" magazines, and over-sexy pocket-sized books...
Even in the event of a blizzard, the Formal will be held as scheduled in Cabot, Whitman, Moors, and Briggs. There are will be dancing from 8 to 12 p.m. in all four dorms to the music of Half Reeves' orchestra...
Eighty per cent of Cabot, Whitman and Briggs have not yet contributed to the Drive. Bertram and Barnard have the bighost number of contributers, but in percentages the co-operatives have given most...
...Round Peg. Ike kept his business routine to a minimum. For two hours each morning, he went over the mail and dictated answers to his secretary, Mrs. Ann Whitman. After that, his two aides, Appointments Secretary Thomas Stephens and Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, briefed him on the morning news and the day's dilemmas. Confronted by a problem, Ike would think it over for a moment, his forefinger and thumb playing with the cap on his front tooth. Then he would spring from his chair, pace the floor and announce his decision in a quick sentence...