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Cleanup. In Bayport, N.Y., Burton J. Downer cleaned out his attic, left some old clothes on the doorstep for the junkman, days later got them back from the laundry with a $9.54 cleaning bill...
...news of 16,000,000 starving Chinese-its awful truth had never quite drilled itself into the U.S. consciousness. Winter, the traditional time of hardship, had passed. And now suddenly, in spring, when stalks of wheat were poking through the Polish earth, hunger stood on the world's doorstep...
Seemingly in answer to the Faculty's complaint that the responsibility for the cutback lies at the doorstep of University Hall, President Conant last week in a letter to the Student Council announced that there was no financial stringency involved in the tutorial limitation. He said further that the responsibility for tutorial rests entirely with the Faculty. Paradox? And further complicated by Mr. Conant's assurance that he stands four square behind Provost Buck, the implied target of Faculty complaints...
...song, Won't You Wait Till the Cows Come Home, accented by the tinkle of a cowbell and the recorded moo of a Jersey heifer. It closed with a gooey, sentimental ballad called Contented, sung by a weepy-voiced tenor ("I'm on heaven's own doorstep, so contented with you"). Between the moo and the mush, the Carnation Milk Co. poured out a half hour of semi-classical music as thick and sweet as its product. To keep its Contented Hour flowing smoothly, Carnation also hired such big names as Bonelli and Swarthout...
...list by blabbing that he would never again put on a Cardinal uniform. The Cooper news was hardly out before the Pittsburgh Pirates admitted that, they had put up some $30.000 for the Cards' pepperpot, switch-hitting Second Baseman Jimmy Brown. Other anxious buyers fretted on the Cardinal doorstep...