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Meanwhile, the Jubilee Committee, in a last-second plan to dispose of the 20 tickets still unsold, announced that the dances would be opened to stags and one-night couples. "Stags can now buy tickets at the Union ticket booth during the day," Committee Chairman John T. Hazel '51 declared, "and single-night ducats will be available to couples at the doors tonight and tomorrow...
...booth after booth, shapely models were mechanically whacked, pounded and rolled about. Among the exhibits: a coin-operated (50?), bedlike "Massage-O-Mat" for pummeling the body; a "Mac-Levy Leg Massager" for streamlining legs and thighs; chairs called "Gyro-Lators," with vibrating cushions and foot rests to slim down hips and titillate the soles of the feet. The beauticians had a deep interest in the new machines. They needed some tasty bait to get back the business they had lost through a revolution in the trade...
Died. George Lyndon Carpenter, 75, retired international General of the Salvation Army (1939-46); after an operation; in Sydney, Australia. He joined the Army at 19, rose through the ranks, served autocratic General Bramwell Booth as Literary Secretary for twelve years, until Booth demoted him in 1927 for being too candid in his advice. He became a Territorial Commissioner in 1933, succeeded Bramwell's famed sister, Evangeline, as General six years later...
...along with the other two parts of the plan, within the $750,000 limit fixed by the Committee. To skimp the theater would be inexcusable. It should be a theater, not an auditorium--a theater with at least 1500 seats, adequate dressing rooms, a modern stage, and a projection booth and other technical facilities. Without those qualities its usefulness would plummet downwards, negating the effects of economy...
...Booth left the Methodist ministry because the ragtag-&-bobtail following he drew with his fiery street-corner sermons shocked his respectable brethren. Now the Army considers itself a religious body much like any other Protestant denomination, with an accent on works and service. But the old-fashioned blue-and-red uniforms still stand for humility and love-and another chance for sinners...