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Sporting a few pieces of crimson tinted clothes, the gala girl of Piccadilly said that she shan't be caught unprepared should the Harvard crew...
...only wry note in the otherwise gala affair, it was claimed, came from the master of one of the other Houses, who phoned to say the Jolly Up was an "outrage to Harvard College," Parietal rules were waived for the dance, which was the first Jolly Up parody anyone could remember...
Madrid society was all aflutter over the gala season that lay just ahead. Balenciaga, Rodriguez and other select dressmakers had fallen two months behind in deliveries. Printers had run short of cards for engraved invitations. Property owners had jammed the classified ads with offers of "apartments suitable for diplomats." After four years of boycott, some Western nations had sent ambassadors to the government of Dictator Francisco Franco...
From the general air of benevolent conspiracy, just about everyone backstage at the Metropolitan Opera House knew that a surprise was in the making. Only a few -not including the Met's new General Manager Rudolf Bing-had been told the details. Last week, with a gala New Year's Eve audience settled in their seats for Fledermaus, the Met's bubbliest new production in years (TIME, Jan. 1), Mezzo Rise Stevens uncorked the surprise...
This year, both sections are trying to outdo the other with gala displays. Last week, the Cambridge Light Company dug up the sidewalk in front of the Coop to put in permanent installations for electric displays, and yesterday, workmen finished stringing garlands and colored lights between every pole from Harvard to Quincy and Brattle Squares...