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...door: sometimes an undergraduate whose sloppy reversible contrasts oddly with his white starched shirt front and pearl studs. The girl is in shimmering silk: it is the very latest thing, the very best. For this is the night, you know. The third in the Brattle Hall series for sub-debs...
Before a Senate sub-committee appeared Cathrine Curtis, national director of Women Investors in America Inc., to declare that millions of women would go to jail rather than disclose "their wages or income, their matrimonial adventures, or whether they use their bathroom or privy alone or share it with someone else...
Jerome Frank is a warm-blooded, quick-witted, supersensitive, argument-loving man of 51 with a bald sloping brow, bulging eyes, and the slightly travel-worn air of a shambling, sub-leonine cat. At University of Chicago he is remembered as one of the two brightest students of pre-war generations. (The other: Benjamin Cohen.) Son of law-loving Chicago Lawyer Herman Frank, Jerome had a reputation for legal brilliance almost before he started practice. This he increased with the firm of Levinson, Becker, Schwartz & Frank, corporate specialists. Jerome also developed a reputation for hard work and absentmindedness. Asking...
...that the earth's axis tips a mile to the northeast every year. ("The earth is a drunken staggering thing . . . the greatest acrobat that we have.") His present passions are botany, and a theory that the aurora borealis (still a scientific mystery) "is light sifted through clouds of sub-microscopic insects...
...Swarthmore out of bigtime athletics, restricted its games to teams in its own class. Unknown at Swarthmore are long, irksome hours of practice, subsidization of athletes. Swarthmore boys and girls play games for fun - two-thirds of them represent their college in intercollegiate sports, on varsity, junior varsity or sub-junior varsity teams. Best Swarthmore teams are in lacrosse (boys) and field hockey (girls). Last fall Swarthmore's varsity football team was unbeaten. Dr. Aydelotte was delighted...