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...four important respects Chrysler's labor troubles differed from the General Motors situation two months earlier, to wit: 1) Chrysler's negotiations began before the sitdown...
...wit has remarked that if the Houses were nicknamed according to their characteristics, we might be referring to the "Lowell Bells", and the "Eliot Court". The best, however, he believed, would be the "Dunster Chimneys". Those chimneys that create our skylne have a greater significance than most people notice. They mean fire-places. There are less than half a dozen rooms in the House without fire-places, despite the never falling central heating system, and about them on long winter evenings the flow of good ale is mixed with the flow of equally good conversation...
Good conversation, wit and wisdom issuing pleasantly from the artful tongue is a thing that Sophomore, Junior, and Senior years place ever-increasing value on, and is the essence and tradition of Dunster. You may not know, even at the end of Sophomore year before whose fire you'll sit or who will sit round yours, for friendships seem to form and develop slowly here; but somehow you will be sitting in a small group about a fire before you leave, with pipes going and a tapped keg on the window sill, following with your mind the tenuous movements...
RORY AND BRAN-Lord Dunsany-Putnam ($2.50). Adventures of a half-wit youth and his dog in the pixillated Irish countryside; in the same vein but not the same class as James Stephens' Crock of GoId...
...could wish. Sid Silver and gangling Buddy Ebsen would brighten any show with their asinine antics. There are spots in the action that seem to drag a little, especially in some of the love scenes, but such carping criticism is really not justified in the face of the lively wit and music which make "Born to Dance" the fast-moving show...