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...snowbunny is a discouraged slatser, an aborted expert, a perennial beginner. The bunnies never remain on the slopes long enough to make any headway; but are driven indoors by ten o'clock, where they are content to watch the schusser from plush leather chairs in the base camp. Bunnies are the last to leave the ski lodge and the first to return, just in time for a change and five o'clock cocktails...
...Pittsburgh Pirates. . . . He is a right-hand hitter." And for the thousands of women whose interest in the Pirates is small, Runyon has other generous helpings to spoon out. "Mrs. Snyder," he notes, "the woman who has been called a Jezebel [came] stepping along briskly in her patent-leather pumps. . . . She has a good figure. . . and I thought she carried her clothes off rather smartly. . . . Her eyes are blue-green, and as chilly looking as an ice-cream cone...
Councilman John K. Lally '49 informs the other members re failure to obtain sufficient parkees to open the across river parking lot. An eager voice arises from a slouched figure that is all but hidden in a large leather upholstered chair; closer examinations discloses the voice as that of David C. Poskanzer '50: "I suggest we have the Cambridge police tow in about 200 cars some night and then we'll be able to fill up the parking lot the next day." He laughs wholeheartedly; other Council members laugh halfheartedly. Says Weld...
Hours of jabbing at suspended rubber balls and diving at leather-backed targets around the wall may make the epee-wielders the best in several years, far surpassing last year's four out of seven varsity wins...
Seasonal vicissitudes combined with the necessity for secrecy have led many cardaddicts to a game involving less suspicion: the ancient pastime of Hearts, now raging from the smoky dens of Eliot to the leather-cushioned bistros of Jordan's Marsh. Inscrutable shyster Robert S. Takeacard (Anycard) '48 smirked over his demitasse last night, "It's better than making book on the mayoralty race. You don't have to buck Mickey...