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...over and have some fun with mother." He supervises the recording of interviews ("Hold it, Mother, there'll be a teaser first"), and he writes and personally delivers the commercials for such sponsors as McKettrick Williams dresses; Sitroux tissues; Manischewitz products; the Toni Co.'s Bobbi Pin Curl Home Waves, and the Illinois Meat...
Pentagon planners, looking for one of those catchy alphabetical abbreviations to pin on the command of Allied defense forces in Europe, decided on SHAPE. This, they said, would stand for Supreme Headquarters, Atlantic Powers in Europe. Still needed: a head to fit the SHAPE. Still the likeliest bet: Ike Eisenhower, sometime head of SHAEF...
...troubles. As they rummaged about for other Omar poems, they uncovered so many that it began to seem impossible that Omar could have written them all. Some quatrains were also attributed to other poets, and scholars began to conclude that Omar was just a convenient name on which to pin any wine-colored quatrains that turned up. As for the Rubáiy5ádt, scholars also had doubts: Was Omar a really good poet, or had FitzGerald merely made him seem...
...fraternity system. Autumn is the rushing season for most fraternities; sophomores wander from house to house, shake hands with prospective brothers, examine the paddles on the wall, and then sit back and wait. At a school like Dartmouth, less than half can reasonably expect to pick lip a pin; at other schools, the proportion may be lower, Ivy newspapers have suddenly started trying to keep the proportion down...
When the Korean war began, Cronin was ordered to start Civilian Defense on a war scale. But this involved changing the whole concept because, Cronin said, "In world War II we expected pin-point bombing, but now with atomic bombs, guided missiles, and bacterial warfare, we must organize a large-scale group read to cope with anything...