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Some people say that UHall will never entirely stop feeling this intrusion because it often operates as an old-boy network and Radcliffe women are simply not old boys. As one UHall administrator says, "Mrs. Horner is sitting in the cat-bird seat and the people here just don't know how to fathom...
...initialed organization for busing foes, calling it ROAR, or Restore Our Alienated Rights, and selecting as its symbol a lion with one paw clamped to the head of a school bus. This year, however, a rift has opened in the organization and the two are engaged in a real cat fight, Palladino pulling about a quarter of their joint constituency away to start a new group, United ROAR. The factionalism may explain much of the calm this fall; certainly Palladino has lost much of her native support in Italian East Boston, and her and Hick's extremist tack may have...
...Harvard dean recently put it, "Matina has had to spend a great deal of time maintaining the institution. Radcliffe is being swallowed and she's gotten the thankless task of seeing that the cat [Harvard] swallows it slowly, piece by piece...
...early books, like The Murder at the Vicarage, Miss Marple was a snoop as well as a sleuth, "the worst old cat in the village." Her famous garden was a smokescreen, and her fondness for observing birds through powerful glasses could be turned to other purposes. As time passed, Dr. Haydock had to tell Miss Marple gently that gardening was making her rheumatism worse. She became quieter and less flighty. But her methods of detection were always the same. Where Poirot used his "little gray cells," Jane Marple extrapolated from her knowledge of St. Mary Mead. A swindler? She remembers...
...Trinity, Uris (T last week) 2-Dolores, Susann (2) 3-Touch Not the Cat, Stewart (4) 4-The Lonely Lady, Robbins (3) 5-The Deep, Benchley(5) 6-Ordinary People, Guest (7) 7-Crowned Heads, Tryon (6) 8-A God Against the Gods, Drury (TO) 9-The Pride of the Peacock, Holt 10-A Stranger in the Mirror,Sheldon...