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...phenomena of the day were the long lines of intent and patient people who shuffled slowly outside almost every polling place. In 1952 the U.S. people urgently wanted to vote. In the secrecy of the voting booth, they had their...
...editorials are out of place. They are unwarranted impositions on the voter who is already surfeited with faction and needs instead a few quiet minutes to make his final decisions. At this time, a twenty-one gun editorial in the morning paper is like a loudspeaker in the voting booth and is not to be tolerated...
Radcliffe girls promised 350 pints and solicited another 90 in the booth set up in Harvard Square. Employees of the University pledged 60 pints...
...Yardlings promised 213 pints, largest total from any single group solicited. Kirkland and Winthrop led the Houses with 88 pints, followed closely by Lowell, with 87. Dunster pledged 84 pints, Eliot and Leverett 76, Adams 43, and Claverly 31. Radcliffe promised 78 pints and the booth in the Square netted approximately 50 pledges...
...pros and he put on the best show of them all. No matter what you may think of bull-fighting or the kid's chances of retiring at sixty-five in one piece, you have to recognize his as an exhibition of guts and skill. He was Albie Booth cracking a beefy line, he was Bobby Schantz beating the Yankees...