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...with no show of emotion: "There is fighting around the door. The general has ordered me to destroy this equipment. Say hello to Paris for me. Au revoir." Then silence. At GHQ, staff officers, generals, signalmen and clerks were leaden with a dread despair. "It was like hearing the tap on the hull of a submarine that lies helpless at the bottom of the sea," said one who listened...
Fish Fry. Frozen sticks of bottom fish (cod, halibut, etc.), dipped in batter and ready for quick cooking, are being put on the market by Seattle's San Juan Fishing & Packing Co. Such uncooked "Fish Stix" are the newest entry in the packers' race to tap the fast-growing fish-stick market. Frozen fish sticks, already cooked, are already being turned out by packers from the Northwest to New England, are selling at the rate of 7,262,000 Ibs. (more than $4,000,000 worth) a year...
...widest street in the world." But each year, some 13,000 teachers and administrators flock to that street. They take courses in everything, from "ideological conflicts and education in Asia" to "family meals" (Cookery 203) and organic chemistry. Though the college does go in for such miscellany as tap dancing ("Well," says Russell, "what would you do if you were a teacher in a small country school on a rainy day?") and a two-week course for janitors, this is only a minor, if highly publicized, part of its work. It has also contributed greatly to the psychology of learning...
Yale's six secret societies became a little more secret this week when the Yale News refused to publish the names of new members. Tap Day, that festivity when men would line up in a quad to be singled out for membership, is now also a thing of the past...
With WYRB, the Yale Broadcasting Station, also withholding the information, the College will be without immediate notification of the tap lists for the first time in 76 years. The Yale Alumni Magazine and Comment, the serious literary undergraduate publication, will publish the lists, however, so all is not lost. Then, too, there's an outside chance that one of the new secret members might let the news slip to his acquaintances...