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Frank Chapman and William String-fellow of Bates College presented a convincing enough case for "equalization of educational opportunity in the states through federal grants" to defeat the Debate Council last night. Roy Clause '50 and Richard Rohr '49 argued the negative side for Harvard...
White Man's Country. But it was four days before the news leaked out of Toombs County on a tip to the liberal Macon News, 90 miles away. Explained the editor of the Lyons Progress in Toombs County (who is also a string correspondent for Atlanta papers): "It's just another Negro killing-why, I'm not even going to put it in my paper." But "just another Negro killing" was soon headline news in the sensitive South...
...towns, hundreds of thousands of children turned out to watch department-store parades featuring Jean Gros's balloons. He had a dragon 100 ft. long, a 450-ft. train with rubber figures of people and animals poking their heads out of the windows, Santa Claus, and a string of jeeps...
...always, Shaw enjoyed himself. He trotted out a string of British and Irish influencers whom most of the critics had never heard of or never deigned to bother with. But high up on Shaw's eccentric list was eccentric Samuel Butler (1835-1902), novelist and creative evolutionist. "It drives one almost to despair," snapped Shaw, "when one sees so extraordinary a study of English life as Butler's posthumous Way of All Flesh making so little impression that when I produce plays in which Butler's extraordinarily fresh, free, and future-piercing suggestions have an obvious share...
Among Ivy League players on the AP team who have seen action against Harvard this fall were Bobby Jack Stuart of Army, who gained a first-string rating; Dartmouth's left end and captain Dale Armstrong, on the second squad; and Joe Quinn of Cornell who found a place for himself as third-line guard. Stuart will be seen here in the Stadium next fall when Army plays its return game...