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Traditional shenanigans were absent yesterday as the annual Freshman Smoker Committee election got off to a slow start. With balloting to be held on Friday--commuters also vote Thursday--only three candidates of the 18 running had created any excitement...
...According to the regulations voted by the faculty, a freshman or sophomore in good standing but not on the Dean's. List who is absent from his last College exercise before or his first College exercise after the Christmas recess will be subject to disciplinary action...
...dogs and Englishmen, Old Rudyard himself, and assorted fans of the esoteric dance, all absent Tuesday night from the new Boston Dance Theatre at 31 Hemmenway Street, would have reveled in "Music and Dances of India," brought to occidental footlights by Lakshimi Wana Singh. Those debutantes, patrons of the beaux arts, and bullied husbands of ripening patronesses who answered muster at the opening offering of the newly-formed Boston Dance Society felt slightly confused, like this reviewer, but on the whole pleased by this curtain raiser of the New Boston Dance Society...
...William W. Eagles, commander of ground forces, was replaced by breezy Major General Josef R. Sheetz, a convivial hustler who had done an able military government job in Korea. Air Force troops on Okinawa are commanded by grey, quiet-spoken Major General Alvin C. ("Ack-Ack") Kincaid, whose slightly absent-minded philosopher's air belies his hardheaded attention to discipline and morale. Since the change of command, Okinawa's scandalous decline has been arrested. But Sheetz and Kincaid still have a tough situation on their hands...
...that so many ball players had to be included when men like Bob Mathias, Charley Justice, and the members of the California crew are conspicuously absent...