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...Decency had quietly collapsed in the New York State Legislature (TIME, Jan. 14). At a committee hearing last month plenty of opponents showed up but only the National Catholic Welfare Conference went on record for the measure and then only by sending the committee a letter. Dr. Charles Francis Potter, Manhattan humanist, helped laugh the bill to death by pointing out that its provision against a person exposing his body in the presence of two or more persons of the opposite sex, similarly exposed, would make it illegal for a woman to give birth to twin boys...
Ordinarily not a sanguinary sport, fencing scored its first surgery of the year on its swing southward last weekend, when the Varsity team met Columbia, the Navy, and the New York Fencers' Club. Six-foot-one Dick Ford was exchanging ripostes and flesches with Potter of Columbia when Ford's epee snapped off into a jagged edge. Potter's lunge spitted him on the remaining blade, with the net result that six stitches has to be taken below the ribs...
Twenty Varsity rugby players have been invited to play a series of matches at Bermuda during spring vacation, James A. Potter '34, president of the Harvard Rugby Club said yesterday. The Bermuda Athletic Association which extended the invitation has promised all expenses on the island, but the rugger men wishing to go on the trip must pay their steamship fare...
...crowd which crowded the Dining Hall to overflowing registered emphatic approval of the tutors' antics as Falstaff's ragamuffin soldiers. An worldly horde they formed featuring Mess Potter and Bissell the former with great fur rug glued to his with a and the latter coyly holding chest depicting a frolicking baby Elephant...
Post Road (by Wilbur Daniel Steele & Norma Mitchell; Potter & Haight, producers) starts out as a folksy little drama about some harmless muttonheads who run a roadside boarding house on the highway between New York and Boston. The play is half over before the audience suddenly learns that the guest who said he was a doctor and the young woman who he said was his patient are really a pair of kidnappers and the baby whose delivery the doctor apparently effected, their tiny victim. Authors Steele & Mitchell (Mrs. Steele) are old hands in the theatre. So are Producers Potter & Haight (Double...