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...cannot, she outstares it. Just watching her handle a third-rate song can compensate for its third-rateness. Whatever her stage environment-riding an ocean liner or bucking the Main Line, singing of a dead husband or chatting with a live horse-she has the urgency of a steam calliope, the assurance of an empress, and a likable low-downness all her own. The Ethel Merman who began as little more than wonderfully lusty vocal cords has expanded and grown into an expertly manipulated stage personality; and in a show business that so often turns the funny into the vulgar...
...knows every sonority that has ever been tried and quite a few that have not. When the 10 flutes start a massed flutter-tongue passage, it sounds as prickly as a porcupine's wedding; other fascinating moments are reminiscent of a jazz band playing at top speed, a steam calliope, a sound track for a science-fiction film-all a frothy treat...
...poor heating, however, complaints about poor heating, however. Julian T. Baird '60 complained to the Freshman Union committee two weeks ago that the heating in Matthews is deficient. Baird discussed the problem with J.D. Connors, supervisor of care-taking who told him that "there was a possibility" that the steam system might be turned off later than midnight...
Actually, WHRB has never been "broadcasting" at all, except inadvertently, since its founding--by the CRIMSON--in 1940. By using radio frequency lines, strung up throughout the University's steam tunnels, it has never transmitted programs through the air which, so far as the FCC is concerned, is the meaning of broadcasting...
...held the post for three years when the U.S. staggered into World War II without an outstanding tank design or artillery piece and still using World War I helmets, by his retirement in 1942 had fired up the Army's weapons program to nearly full steam; in Washington...