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...Deke fraternity initiation (TIME, Feb. 27), the University of Texas (enrollment 15,500) ran into some hazing trouble of its own. Wearing burlap bags, Delta Sigma Phi pledges had been ordered to drink mineral oil, play wheelbarrow, i.e., walk around on their hands while someone held their feet, push brushes across the floor with their noses. One boy was put to bed with a severely upset stomach. Another was hospitalized. Paul Earney, 24-year-old ex-paratrooper, spent a week in the hospital as a result of a neck injury received during the "brush race." Though the hazing was actually...
...head wounds who got only vaccine, three died. Of the 13 who got serum as well, only one died (and he had but a single shot of serum). Among the 25 who today are alive and healthy is Golam Khazayi. No other human being has survived so intimate a brush with rabies...
...Bearded Jack Smith, 27, first to rate the critics' recognition (TIME, July 26, 1954), who says: "A bottle is a bottle, and it's quite different from a cucumber. I want to get this across." An admiring critic found in his bold brush strokes "a passion reminiscent of Van Gogh's during his Potato Eaters period...
Pusey's answer, through Dean Bundy, was nothing but a polite brush-off. They agreed that the idea was "a very good and very interesting one." But the job got no further, and Leach was forced to launch the program without financial aid. Both the Law School and the Graduate School of Public Administration listed a seminar on defense in their 1954-55 catalogues, and Littauer subsequently formally assumed sponsorship of the program...
...love of Joyce Gary's life is life. Inevitably, bits and pieces of his own have cropped up in his joyous string of novels. Gulley Jimson, the rascally painter of The Horse's Mouth, bore the knowing brush strokes of Gary's three-year try at being an artist in turn-of-the-century Paris and Edinburgh. In Mr. Johnson, still the best novel written about modern Africa, Gary drew on his tours of duty as an officer in British West Africa during and after World War I. In A House of Children, written...