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Encrusted with ice, the Lampoon's Ibis dropped into the office last night with the news that the boys at the Bow Street aviary had renounced their schoolboy pranks and were embarking into the complex scientific world of public opinion research. To prove his point, the faithless Ibis took some proof-sheets from under a wing and read excerpts...
...plot is complex at first glance; but it really doesn't amount to much. Betty Hutton starts out as twin sisters; one who is an ardent Bing Crosby fan, and the other who thinks him an annoying crooner. Bing, as a sobbing singer--genus Sinatraensis--falls for the twin who will have none of him. In the course of action the Waves get both Betty Huttons, Bing gets the sensible sister, and the bobby-sock twin gets left with Sonny Tufts, who doesn't seem to care...
Over the Barriers. The Nida River was now an incident in the taking of ancient Cracow, Poland's fourth city and the gateway to southern Silesia and its complex of German industrial cities. At the Nida the Germans had worked six months to build an impassable barrier. Thousands of Yugoslav laborers had dug three lines of trenches on either side, protected by a string of strong points to the east. Marshal Ivan Konev made straight for these barriers, bypassed the strong points before the enemy had recovered from his breakthrough. Konev's advance forces crossed the formidable Nida...
...Special Assistant." By definition (the Official Register of the U.S.) Harry Hopkins is "special assistant and adviser to the President of the United States." Actually, his job is much more complex. It is a unique position in the U.S. Government. Specifically it calls for the qualities of a secretary, expediter, administrator, errand boy, good listener, executive, idea man, boon companion, and alter ego. There is no law covering it, the occupant need not be confirmed by Congress, he is responsible to no one except the President, and he can make the job what he will. When Hopkins quits (unlikely...
Still seeking victory number one, the Varsity five will face M.I.T. tonight at Tech's Walker Gymnasium, in a contest which will get under way at 8:15 o'clock. Whether the Crimson can shake the inferiority complex which they seem to be developing may be decided in this game...