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...gold at Fort Knox was no more zealously guarded last week than Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's long-awaited book. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. At the University of Indiana in Bloomington, newspaper and magazine writers were allowed to pore over galley proofs on one condition: none but their editors must be told what is in the book until Aug. 20. Summaries of not more than 5,000 words may then be published. Finally (the exact date is still a secret), Kinsey (and W. B. Saunders Co.) will publish the book itself...
...over seventy years, since the days when it ranged from a mudflat to tidal torrent twice daily, the Charles has been the playground of youthful Harvard galley slaves. Before the turn of the century, boat clubs made rowing attractive; over five hundred undergraduates used to pull oars, and many more thronged to the crew races...
...Blot sat in the Great Hall, silently mulling over the galley proofs of the April Lampoon. In the corner propped up behind him was a large cardboard thermometer, colored up to 12.1 percent. Around it were slogans: "Let's hit fifteen in '53!" "Upward with Updike!" "Mother Advocate gains readers...
Blot yelled something unprintable, and leaving the galley proofs on the table, ran upstairs to stop the movies and marshall the editors for the search...
They found that many workers were imprisoned behind barbed wire, slept at night on concrete slabs and were treated like galley slaves. Mounted "boss boys" rode among them during the day, beating them with bullwhips. Laborers died in filthy "hospitals" where a doctor was seldom seen. Often workers did not see the contracts they supposedly had "signed," had no idea what was in them...