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Known on the Northwestern campus for his so called "fur fez", Professor McGovern taught in the Government Department here three years...
...that Harvard is a hotbed of radicals and crackpots. Ask a communist, and he will explain that Harvard is a citadel of reaction, and that the University's much-vaunted liberalism is so much window-dressing. Ask a Cambridge citizen, and he will inform you that Harvard is a fur-lined cradle for the idle and arrogant sons of the rich. Go to Mickey Sullivan, the Donald Duck of Cambridge politics, and he will embrace all these concepts--he will picture the typical Harvard student as a wealthy young snob, driving madly to a deb party in his sixteen cylinder...
...Clad in a brassiere and a G-string, with feathers in her hair and on her heels, Miss Bacon insisted, wedding or no wedding, that she was going to do her uninhibited stuff before the television camera. In honor of the occasion, Miss Bacon offered to put on a fur neckpiece, was enraged when Don Lee officials rejected her compromise...
...stuff in dummies and drapes. Dali's surrealist windows were a big success. But shocked customers finally demanded that his hair-raising semi-nude manikins be further draped. Infuriated by unscheduled changes in his windows, spindly-framed Dali broke into one of them, hurled himself and a fur-lined bathtub through the plate glass, almost decapitated himself. Bonwit Teller did not try the experiment again...
...World. On the voyage his mind fumbles toward the invention of the sextant, the use of Indian hammocks at sea, of pumps for bilge, copper sheathing against marine borers. He is fascinated -and so is the reader-by every detail of medieval navigation, by Columbus (half inspired zany, fur-collared "thespian"), by the cloudy jumble of zombie myth and fetal science which throng Columbus' mind...