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...Defense Department is way behind on its military orders. The President has lagged on economic controls. (Said a member from Texas: "I never felt worse in my life. What in the name...
...better just singing and entertaining without straining his back in the bargain. During the war he had to give up his orchestra ("Italians were too depressed to enjoy cheerful dance music"), eked out a living by trading on the black market. But since then Bruno, who changed his name from Baldini to Quirinetta after making his first big hit in Rome's Quirinetta nightclub, has become roughly as popular as ravioli...
Malory, Mallore, Mallery. For four centuries, Sir Thomas, author of Morte Darthur and thus literature's main source for the King Arthur legends, had been nothing but a name in Caxton's 1485 edition. Then, in the late 19th Century, Harvard's famed George Lyman Kittredge began poring over the records of every likely Malory, Mallore, Maulore, Mallere, Malure, Mallery, and Maleore in 15th Century England. After months of investigation, he finally fixed on Sir Thomas Malory of Warwickshire, a member of the Earl of Warwick's retinue during the Hundred Years...
When Charley Caldwell went back to Princeton five years ago to become head football coach, Tiger alumni did a good job of restraining their enthusiasm. Hungry for a winning football team after years of indifferent records, many of them had been hoping for a big-name coach with a national reputation. Charley Caldwell, an old Tiger letterman (1922-24), had had his chief coaching success at Williams in the relative obscurity of the Little Three (Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan...
When the Washington Star juggled its comic strips recently to make room for a new one, the editors worried not a bit about dropping an odd little strip from the top of the page. Its name: Pogo. But the reaction was sharp & swift. In came a letter signed by 18 members of the "Pogo Protective League" demanding that the strip "be returned to its rightfully superior position" lest "indignant readers everywhere rise up in armed might to crush this infamy." Gravely the Star's editors bowed to the will of the readers, restored Pogo...