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...every Yaleman's life, there has been one traumatic experience that other people do not have. It is Tap Day-the tense afternoon in May when members of the junior class gather to await the whack on the back that will send 90 of them to the six great Senior societies. William Howard Taft had sweated it out (he went Skull & Bones); so had his son Robert (Bones), and Robert's political adversary, Dean Acheson (Scroll & Key). Even that fictional stalwart. Dink Stover (Bones), had trembled at the thought of Tap Day: "The morning was interminable, a horror...
...TIME's. Usually an interviewer has limited time and wants something specific-something on a film or fashion, on make-up or why you want to play a part-but a personality interview really throws you. You don't know quite what to do-go into your tap dance, recite a poem you learned at the age of four or what. You're rather embarrassed when you realize that you've been saying nothing but 'I, I, I,' for three hours! And all the time you wonder what they are making of it. When...
...course of I Love Melvin, pert Debbie Reynolds impersonates a football in a gridiron dance number. Donald O Connor does a tap dance on roller skates and goes through some amusing rapid costume changes in a photographer's gallery. But the picture leaves O'Connor's musical-comedy talents largely untapped...
Yale promises to dominate the first installment of the three-day circus, and the following two as well. The 1500-meter is the lone event on tap tonight, and the Elis may well place four...
...when a few of the boys worked over some shops and a police station, the Ulster government is wary of a new gathering. And perhaps they're right. It is a glorious sight when the lads of the Sinn Fein go swinging down the road, keeping time to the tap of their shillelaghs on the cobblestones; but feelings do run high...