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With cash prizes and possible publication in "Wake" or "Pro Tem" offered as inducement, the international Club of Harvard and Radcliffe is at present conducting a contest to unearth latent talent for poetry in the University...
...almost certain to get the job-none of his colleagues seemed to want it. In normal times its functions are routine: presiding over the Senate when the Vice President is away. But Senator McKellar could consider another possibility. If the President of the U.S. dies, the Senate President pro tem becomes the de facto Vice President of the U.S. (without inheriting the right of succession). And in that event, Spoilsman McKellar would also get a $5,000-a-year salary increase, plus a Government automobile, with chauffeur...
Under the stress of pre-induction anguish, the protagonist, a former employe of the Inter-American Travel Bureau, b haves very badly. He quarrels with his well-meaning relatives, insults his friends, lives off his wife because he sees no point in getting a job that can only be tem porary. He also plays around with a trol lop, and whenever he grows too utterly unhappy, goes out walking in the rain, getting his feet wet to spite everybody...
...student officers are, in a qualified sense, Harvard men. This entails several responsibilities. No longer will you take the subway or tube over the Charles River to Park Street. As a Harvard man--in a qualified sense--you take the "cah over the Chahles to Pahk." As a pro tem and pseudo Crimson student you may move only in strict channels so far as relations with women are concerned. Those channels are Radcliffe, Pine Manor, and Wellesley. You may date a Radcliffe girl, but the chances are pretty good that she'll outrank you; also her disbursing grades will...
...that moment President Schaefer was ousted in one of RKO's then-frequent studio shuffles, and Golden had to start from scratch with pro tem President Ned Depinet. Mr. Depinet assigned an obscure script writer, Emmet Lavery, an equally obscure director, Edward Dmytryk, to make Hitler's Children, and the picture went into production with RKO's and Golden's money in partnership. After two days' shooting Golden was informed that the Guaranty Trust had decided not to make the loan after all: the war might end and leave the bank high & dry. "What," screamed...