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Veteran newsmen wondered how anything could ever come out of the wild confusion. One delegate mistook a two-star admiral for a Yugoslav observer. Reporters themselves caught the fever. One thought he was buttonholing Walter Reuther, embarrassedly found he was talking to a Chicago Tribune staff writer...
First, the eminently cautious and reliable Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine detailed the powers of a new drug named Anthallan. "Relief of a high percentage of cases" of hay fever was claimed...
Just marketed, and discussed last week in the Journal of Allergy, was another new hay fever drug called Benadryl. Experiments have indicated that Benadryl is an all-or-none drug; it gives complete relief to some 50% to 85% of allergy victims, helps the rest of them not a bit. When it works, it relieves both rashes and runny noses, sometimes makes patients drowsy, must be taken every few hours in capsule form...
...Fever ran high for the December 1 Yale game, but the prognostication of the Crime's cartoonist proved too, too true--the Brown victory had over-rated the Crimson in its backers' eyes, as that 28 to 0 crushing went to show. During the winter, Floyd Stahl's court charges held up under the blows of fortune much more successfully than the gridders, winning 17 out of 18 contests and receiving an NCAA bid. Once more, however, the ending was sad--for Wyndol Gray and his teammates couldn't make the grade at Madison Square Garden...
...amidst all the pranks and spring fever there was a strong undertone of serious academic activity, activity unlike any seen since the middle thirties. The battle of tutorial moved toward a climax, then seemed to turn favorably at last. After weeks of Student Council and CRIMSON fire at moves intended by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to cut tutorial instruction even below the limit specified in the curtailing vote of last December, things came to a head when President Conant refuted departmental claims that financial stringency was the reason for further reductions...