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...that might have been of military aid to the Communists. But when the last detention was lifted in 1955, only 39 students chose to return to Red China. ¶ After a three-hour session behind closed doors, the trustees of Princeton University decided the problem that had raised a rumpus extending all the way to Congress: Should the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, the oldest student debating society in the U.S., be allowed to hear a speech this week by Convicted Perjurer Alger Hiss? Though unanimously disapproving the invitation, the trustees answered yes by a 26-4 vote. The society, they...
...Broadway-Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Harold Arlen, Frank Loesser, Irving Berlin, Johnny Mercer. But the million-dollar "pops" that feed the gluttony of the nation's 550,000 jukeboxes, slip through the hands of its several thousand disk jockeys, and shake the walls of dormitories and rumpus rooms are written for the most part by little-known men. They are more familiar to the Bureau of Internal Revenue, Income Tax Division, than to the public...
...train to Washington, it was just like Tad to bait dignitaries with the query "Do you want to see Old Abe?" and then gleefully point out some total stranger. To Tad and Willie, the Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer of the Lincoln family, the White House was a huge rumpus room. They found the central bell system and sent the White House staff scurrying up and down stairs in a dither over the President's safety. The "dear codgers" built a sled in the attic out of an old chair, with a copy of the Congressional Record...
...Midwest artists, most of whom shelter in academic circles, a bigger buying audience and broader tastes are heartening news for the future. Says Norman A. Geske, acting director of the University of Nebraska Art Galleries: "In our one big show, there is always a rumpus over something that's considered too daring. But on the whole, you can bring almost anything into Lincoln. I think we are abreast of the folks in New York City, and, in fact, some New Yorkers tell me we're ahead of them...
...intake. So she takes several pick-me-ups." The worst offenders, she added, are dinner-party hostesses. "The overly hospitable-and, we hate to say it-many of the newly rich-instruct their servants to serve hard liquor with every course." As Editor Deshais hoped, bluebloods kicked up a rumpus over her picture of them as boozebloods. Commented clubwoman Mrs. Earl Kribben, whose husband is a Marshall Field vice president: "Drinking Scotch or bourbon with the main course would be like going to a dinner party in your bathing suit. Some of your statistics sound so frantic. You must...