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...elections, usually held in late spring, have been moved forward this year because of the February graduation of President Jay J. Meltzer '49. The elected officers will take office for a full cabinet meeting directly after the dinner and serve until the regular April elections can restore the status quo. Full members of PBH have been voting by postcard for two weeks...
Decline & Fall. Dr. Douglas' ancient times have none of the awesome stage effects of Ben-Hur or Quo Vadis, with their baths, slaves, violence and mystery. They are practical and humdrum; the decline of Rome does not mean orgies in the palaces, but higher taxes. The nomadic simplicity of desert life is so contrasted with the hypocrisy of the cities that Dr. Douglas sometimes seems to be loading the dice in favor of the outdoors and in favor of the Arabs as against the Jews. There is another side of Jewish life, however, which Fara discovers when...
...back to status quo," Art explained last night after winding up pre-Holy Cross practice under the Stadium lights. "We lost some time at the beginning of the week, but we're all caught...
...states--Iowa and Wyoming--the Republicans are perspiring freely in efforts to maintain the status quo, but in four others, they are more secure. Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper has enough popularity with independents to offset the advantage his rival, Virgil Chapman, will have in Barkley's candidacy. Homer Ferguson in Michigan, and Curley Brooks in Illinois are two GOP veterans who can reasonably expect to return to Washington, while in Oklahoma neither Republican Rizley nor Democrat Kerr can claim much advantage...
...with him, Edward Sienkiewicz thought it a big joke. Yes, it was true: he had told the interpreter that he knew about fishing-fishing was his hobby. But he had also told the interpreter that in his native Poland he was known as the grandnephew of famed Novelist Henryk (Quo Vadis?) Sienkiewicz, as a cello virtuoso and as an occasional conductor of the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra...