Word: yalemen
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...Spokesman mourned deeply last week the passing of its best colyumist, a man who, News Editor Malcolm Glendenning said, had never once turned in a poor piece of copy, who knew as much about sport as he did about turning out neat comic rhymes for his daily "Facetious Fragments." Yalemen who were in college just before the War remembered Stod King's brilliant undergraduate record, how he impressed people at first as a swart plain-spoken Westerner careless about clothes, how he joined Zeta Psi (next to worst of the five fraternities then in existence*), went on working...
...Morgans and the Lamonts go to Harvard. But six Yalemen are in the firm...
...Vassar College sees Yalemen about his campus every weekend. Interviewed by a Yale Newsman, said he: "We are now faced by the grave problem of extensive lack of manners in regard to liquor, and I dread the approach of beer for that reason. I resent unmannerly actions resulting from liquor, and I can neither forgive nor forget them. . . . Drinking is an art, and while in France it may be productive of good conversation, in Germany of music, and in England of social living, here it makes fools out of gentlemen. . . . We have arrived at a point where a decided stand...
...Divorce (libretto by Dwight Taylor; words & music by Cole Porter; Dwight Deere Wiman, producer). For this bright little musicomedy Composer Porter (The New Yorkers), whom Yalemen remember as the author of "Bulldog, Bull-dog," has written some of his most beguiling melodies and lyrics. Sample...
Country clubs were torn into factions, Yalemen turned against Harvardmen. Vanderbilts against Harrimans, horsemen against non-horsemen. Manhasset against Sagamore Hill in the ist Congressional District of New York last week. Even the several hundred thousand plain people inhabiting Long Island were aware that an unusual contest was being waged between curly-headed, soft-eyed Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny"') Whitney* and big. bluff Robert Low Bacon for the latter's seat in Congress. The opponents handled their campaigns with kid rather than loaded gloves, but each bestirred himself energetically. Democrat Whitney, his beauteous second wife, three station wagons, a touring...