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...Threshold well fulfills the purposes of its sponsor, the International Student Service. Designed to present "the best writing and thinking of students," this magazine gives most of its emphasis to the active role which college people can and are taking in national and international affairs. As the official ISS organ, Threshold undertakes to form a link between a large variety of political youth groups, while as a student magazine that includes among its editors such an outstanding liberal and educator as Alvin Johnson it, contains pertinent commentary upon contemporary education and national affairs...
...Karolik and the museum. Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall headed a long list of Back Bay notables who gathered to gaze and admire. But Maxim Karolik was not there. He had slipped out a back door as the distinguished guests walked in the front entrance. "I consider it iss correct, it iss even chic that the Karoliks should not go to the opening," he explained. "It iss better that the collection should shine by its own glory...
...trainees also published a newspaper, Camp-ISS-Bellow, put salt in the sugar bowl, sucked lollipops handed out by Mrs. Roosevelt, satirized their lecturers in songs, played tennis, danced, picnicked. Curfew was at midnight, but when Mrs. Roosevelt was around they stayed up until...
They surrounded themselves with some of the greatest names of the stage, among them, Lillian Russell, DeWolf Hopper and David Warfield. For every serious success other producers had, Weber & Fields turned out a broad and successful burlesque. They matched Du Barry with Du Hurry, Quo Vadis with Whoa Vass Iss?, Cyrano de Bergerac with Cyranose. Whatever the title, Weber & Fields remained the same. Lew Fields tried to explain, Joe Weber couldn't understand. Joe Weber disgraced himself, Lew Fields hit him over the head...
...afternoon last week, Milles's singing sculpture was unveiled. In bristly English Sculptor Milles explained his statue, wiped his forehead when he had finished. Said he afterward: "A sculptor likes to vork, you know. But dis making speeches iss much harder. Yust as soon as I open my mouth I tink I am saying vot iss wrong. I feel much better now dis iss ofer...