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Surviving are his widow, the former Helen Woolsey, and two other children, Heathcote W. and Jane M. Wales...
Cross Campus, and the bells in Harkness Tower pealed traditional Yale tunes (sample: Down the Field). Parading back to cavernous Woolsey Hall, Brewster received the ancient symbols of presidential office: the 1701 manuscript of the original Yale Charter, the school seal of 1722, and the brass keys to the university. Windup of the weekend was a grand ball at the turtle-shaped Ingalls hockey rink, where guests, faculty and the presidential couple sipped punch and danced the night away as two bands played music to be inaugurated...
...driven to a desperate remedy: set a cop to catch a cop. Unfortunately, Inspector Fred ("Nosy") Parker (Lionel Jeffries), who qualifies handily as the stupidest flatfoot seen on screen since Edgar Kennedy turned in his badge, couldn't catch a hangnail in a square mile of linsey-woolsey...
Thirty years ago, Federal Judge John M. Woolsey decided that Ulysses was not obscene on the grounds that it was a work of art. Last week New York State Supreme Court Justice Arthur G. Klein decided that a seminaked waitress is not obscene on the grounds that it does not matter...
...possible that Judge Woolsey, who defined obscenity as "tending to arouse sexual impulse," might have dissented. If the Bunnies were not rousing at least a few sexual impulses, the Playboy Club was obviously wasting its money on their non-costumes...