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...studying engineers didn't get out of classes until 4:30. That made it nearly 5:30 before they were in uniform and on the practice field, and by then it was getting dark. Under Tech's simon-pure program, football players didn't even get pin money from the school. Worse still, rigid entrance exams kept out boys who were fast on their feet but slow in the head. And when Wild Bill finally got his boys together for practice, some of them couldn't stay long. Norm Keats, 210-lb. first-string tackle...
...strangers when she pretends to be a dope fiend. (She sprays her temperamental throat with a doctor's prescription that includes cocaine.) Once, for the benefit of a visiting innocent, she took a Benzedrine pill (a drug she uses regularly), mashed it on wax paper with a rolling pin and asked for a nail file. Then, sprinkling the powder on the file and sniffing it, she said: "This is really the only way it's effective, dahling...
...pair of grey pin stripe trousers was the first item auctioned off by Carol Fraser '50 yesterday during a lost and found sale held in Agassiz House. A Radcliffe janitor snapped up this first offering for 50 cents...
...Togliatti's suave, serge-suited craftiness. Loudly, Longo had threatened insurrection, had ordered unpopular (and unsuccessful) nationwide strikes. At a closed meeting of the party's Central Committee, Togliatti last week listened to Longo defend his policy, then flatly contradicted him. Said Togliatti: "We cannot pin our hopes on a large insurrectional movement . . . Our objective is still gaining a majority by preserving all our old alliances and making new ones. Let us beware of locking ourselves up in our own walls...
...biggest U.S. women's magazine has; a slogan that hangs over advertisers' heads, like a poised rolling pin: Never underestimate the power of a woman. This week., to prove that admen don't, the October Ladies' Home Journal carried a staggering; $2,677,260 worth of ads on its 278 pages., more than any magazine had ever crammed, into a single issue. It was no one-shot freak; the Journal was breaking its own record, and next month will do even better, having just raised its ad rates...