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Master Gordon M. Fair of Dunster House, one of the Faculty sponsors of Inter-House Debating, presented, in lieu of the absent trophy, a certificate of award to Roger D. Irle '56 who with teammates, Thomas Bergin '57, and David Levinson formed the winning Dunster team...
...Someone absent from the Harvard scene since 1953-54 would be astonished at the change in attitude toward drama. How would be compelled to ask. "What caused this change?" In 1953 if he had been told that dramatics would hold a dominant position in the University in 1956, he would have said this would only be possible with a Harvard Theatre. The reasons for the turnabout in attitudes is not readibly explainable. Walter Kerr of the New York Herald-Tribune points to the recent surge of dramatic activity throughout the country as being based on a "removal of political suppression...
...does Nixon's past voting record come near the kind of Eisenhower Republicanism he is now supporting. Eisenhower strongly favors economic aid to under-developed nations, but Nixon not only opposed aid to Korea, (which was defeated by one vote in January, 1950) but he also was absent and unrecorded on Truman's Point Four Program. Eisenhower strongly favors drastic revision of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, yet Nixon was one of the Senator's whose vote helped override Truman's veto. Eisenhower strongly favors a liberal, long-term Reciprocal Trade Program, yet Nixon in 1948 voed against a three...
...William divided his weekly income of ?11 ($30.80) equally between the two families, giving each wife ?5 and keeping ?i for himself. His job, like that of Alec Guinness' bigamous seafarer in the movie The Captain's Paradise, made it simple, even obligatory, for him to be absent from each of his homes for stated periods. He was careful to spend Christmas and New Year's Day alternately at either home. To avoid any embarrassing slips of the tongue, William had even arranged as far as possible to give the children in each of his families...
...ruled, was made of five trucks that were also part of the deal. Accordingly, the 28-man court (complete with nine new members appointed in recent months by Adhemar's archrival, Governor Jánio Quadros) convened early one afternoon last week, studied the truck charges against the absent defendant and passed sentence at 3:35 the next morning by a vote...