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Senior tutor John J. Conway, absent on a sabbatical this year and temporarily replaced by W. Bliss Carnochan, has a less vivacious, but just as successful, approach with House members...
...fireplace of her 14th-floor suite, opened her windows and sounded the alarm. Firemen appeared, then rushed down twelve stories to learn that a guest in a second-floor apartment, after igniting some logs in its fireplace, doused them on observing that the flue was all but clogged. The absent tenant of the lower suite: Architectitan Frank Lloyd Wright, 87, a great fireplace fancier, who has also been known to prohibit smoking by people in his presence...
Henry Morgan, who was scheduled to appear, could not be present. Capp thought this no great loss. S.J. Perelman was also absent. The other panelist was Alen "Candid Camera" Funt, who related humorous experiences. The moderator was James A. ("Red Mac") Maclachan, Professor...
Whether or not the Houses were once more vital centers because of fewer residents and a higher proportion of tutors, is a question on which honest men differ. Certainly the Houses offer some benefits today which were absent in the 1930's. But the critical point is that the Houses are not now what President Lowell intended them to be: "the way the benefits of the small college are combined with the rich offerings of a great university...
Life's Encore. In the final stage of their journey they encountered the overwhelming if absent-minded munificence of the U.S. Army. A Negro truck driver whisked them 50 miles in 60 minutes to Halle airfield, where a U.S. dispatcher airily put them aboard a C-47 bound for Brussels and, by easy stages, home...