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Last January WHRB announcer Pete Salerno '68 won Playboy magazine's nationwide jazz prediction poll, a dis-jockey contest to guess what the readers would choose the most popular jazz numbers of the year, Salerno scored first participate the readers' taste, but, he says; "it was a calculated win. I had substitute my own taste." As a part of the contest, he was supposed to popularize the records he chose, but "there were a couple I couldn't even put on the air...our listeners would have called up to complain...
Last week O'Brien journeyed to Cambridge to exercise all three of these options. He arrived by train and was rushed off to a Faculty Club luncheon, thence to a taped interview for WHRB, and finally to Kirkland House where he spoke on "The United States and Africa...
...enormously energetic women, Mrs. Friedan speaks in long, run-on sentences and Burins arguments in rushes of anecdotes and shibboleths. "In my generation," she began a WHRB interview, "the consciousness of what a woman's life can be came too late--and too painfully--to do anything at all." She admits she continues to direct her books at that generation, writing passionate, if somewhat untenable, perfaces about her consoeurs who "lie beside their husbands at night...afraid to ask even of themselves the silent question--'Is this all?'" She then rushes into effusions about "marvelously talented college girls who will...
...Friedan bridles at the suggestion that she is a feminist; she switches her head and pounds her small fist on the table at the idea. "We haven't passed into a new kind of feminism," she corrected the WHRB interviewer impatiently. "Call it peopleism." She is a turnerr of pharases, a master at epigrams, but not a consistent thinker. The chapters of her book have catchy titles: "The Sexual Solipsism of Sigmund Freud," "The Functional Freeze, the Feminine Portest, and Margaret Mead," "The Sexual Sell," and "Housewifery Expands to Fill the Time Available...
...House, President; Joseph N. Erlanger '67 of Quincy House, Vice-President; Peter C. Salerno '68, Treasurer; and George O. Klemp Jr. '68 of Quincy House and Martin J. Thorpe '68 of Kirkland House, members of the Board. Elaine R. Savitsky '68 of Moors Hall will be Clerk of the WHRB Corporation...