Hobart College - Echo of the Seneca Yearbook (Geneva, NY)

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Favorable signs of world happiness—how brief!— were in the offering that October in ’54. The Yugoslavia of willful Tito accepted the Trieste settlement. Tito promised Yugoslav investment in Trieste. Russian Smiles were growing cheshirely. Even Ernest Hemingway might be pardoned in such a happy, unmilitant mood, if he delightedly re- ceived a mere traditionalism: the Nobel Prize. A few old signs made their appearance: a Todd jack- et, a style begun in 1928 by a Yale student, is fitted to a Yale freshman. But, the first year of our generation could have as a perfect synthetic symbol, nothing more fitting than “Scrabble” which took the country by storm. It was a game of words yet there was a fearful note in the chaos of its name and the first word written on the board fearful for what would soon worry us anew, what was perhaps the horrid end of generation: “conquest.” But of whom and by what? 30

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The sporting world gathered itself for more history. John Tandy, only two months later, broke the four- minute mile and beat Bannister’s time. In September ’54 Rocky Marciano, despite a split nose, sent E.zzard Charles home without a title, which he now claimed. Heavyweight champion of the world. With his face shadowed by a thick beard, Sal (the Barber) Maglie stood on the mound in Brooklyn and scowled in October ’54. Of all the hated Giants, the Dodgers hated Maglie most. Three times this year he had beaten them. This time the Giants needed only one game to put the Dodgers out of the National League race. Maglie did it. 29

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I f PRESLEY Elvis (“The pelvis’’) Presley first rock-and-rolled his way into public recog- nition with his hit record, “Heartbreak Hotel.” Since then his success has sky- rocketed—in less than a year he sold over six million records. As well known for his hip-rolling style as for his voice, he has become the idol of teenagers, the bane of civic leaders. In the course of just a few months he has been barred from several cities, indirectly caused thousands of dollars worth of theater damage, and (shades of Frank Sina- tra) lost not a few suits to teen-age souvenir hunters. Unperturbed by what ap- pears to some as a social up- heaval, Elvis has continued making records, appear- ances, movies and money. 31