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Conversation is hushed and shushed. SEPTEMBER brought the Yale man back to Yale, back to the un- changed scene (unchanged, that is, except for damage done by the female hurricanes, Carol and Edna ) . Harriman was elected gov- ernor of New York, and Vargas committed suicide, but sports dominated the month as the New York Giants whipped the Yankee- killing Cleveland Indians in four straight, with some aid from the heavy-hitting Dusty Rhodes and the irrepressible Willie Mays. Yale men ' s eyes were glued to the television sets. Yale President A. Whitney Griswold, however, had his own ideas about television as he lamented to Brown ' s 191st convocation: (Conversation) is hushed and shushed in dimly lighted parlors by television audiences who used to read, argue, and even play bridge, an old fashioned card game requiring speech. It was obvious, however, that low- brow stimulation could still sell movie tickets at the Lincoln as the Sunday afternoon flick squad showed that it was a boom and bust year for Italian cinemactress Gina Lollobri- gida and her cohorts. Entertainment on a national level was of the best variety. Marlon Brando continued to prove himself the movie ' s most talented actor, while the newcomer Grace Kelly added a quiet dignity to the screen which was wel- come to movie-goers. Audiences agreed with critics when Brando I On the Waterfront ' I and Kelly ( The Country Girl ) received the Academy Award presentations. Broadwa] was alive with smash hits, and on television George Cobcl was the top man on the ladder of comedians. WHAT were you doing in October? If you were Harry Truman, you were demanding a Democratic congress. If you were Winston Churchill, you were celebrating your 80th birthday. If you were Yale pro- fessor Cecil Driver, you were lecturing to a record class of 600, and waiting for Church- ill to dissolve Parliament as an object lesson for your group. And if you were Ernest Hemingway, you had just been awarded the Nobel Prize. The famous Yankee Clipper, Joe DiMaggio, had a difficult time being compatible with Marilyn, much to the surprise of most of the American male population. The ban on Smith ' s Mountain Day was announced; Blad- derball made its debut on the campus; and the university deficit reached the million dollar mark. A few students were finding private enterprise quite profitable, although most of the set who tried the build up your wealth letters found their names still at the end of a long, long list. Elsewhere, there was the sound of rejoic- ing as Trieste was turned over to Italy; not-so-happy sound of cancer reached the ears of cigarette smokers. Mendes-France ' s ears heard the sound of a vote of confidence on the German Rearmament, and the whole world breathed a little easier. Hot air and cold beer: Mountain Day ' s last gasp. 12

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NOVEMBER ' S weather was brisk and rainy, and time was running out on an old year. Malenkov suggested to a visiting senator, Let ' s be friends, but the next morning ' s headlines screamed: Migs shoot down B-29; 1 killed in attack off Japan. Things were a long way from set- tled. Peking was sentencing thirteen U. S. fliers as spies, and probably someone was mourning Andrei Vishinsky, who found that death was the one thing he couldn ' t veto. but not those who listened faithfully to the clipped accents of Professor Lewis P. Curtis. A standing ovation was not uncommon in his History 48 class, even on Saturdays. Pro- fessor Maynard Mack, an old hand at spell- binding, was delivering his famous Put out the light lecture on Othello, while news of other Ivy colleges made the headlines. Father Divine gave the University of Pennsylvania only five days ' notice, announcing that the institution was doomed. Harvard proclaimed a ban on intoxicants at her football games only two days after Mendes-France started his milk-drinking campaign in France. Ob- viously neither announcement was received too kindly. Beta Theta Pi won the fraternity scholar- ship prize, and the Music Centennial was get- ting underway the same day. The football player ate steaks at the training table, the common man endured dining hall offerings, and the extra-curricular phenomenon some- times did not eat at all in his haste to meet deadlines. The hierarchy of Yale, at least gastronomically, was well established. The Mambo was sweeping the country, and Perez Prado, although not a Yale man him- self, was obviously enraptured by Bull-dog, Bulldog, as he announced he would turn the song into a Mambo. A defeat for Joseph. The headline news in November, of course, was the mid-term elections. When the shout- ing bad died, the Democrats had captured the House and Senate, despite the fact that the P. U. had supported the Republicans, 46-29; and Yale men followed with varying degrees of interest the Ribicoff triumph in the gubernatorial race in Connecticut. Most of the undergraduates were more interested in the Harvard and Princeton football games, hut no amount of cheering did much good as Yale ended last in the Big Three but first in the race for the l League championship. For the first time in 53 weeks, there was no one picketing the Taft Hotel: it was almost like losing a pari of oneself. The shrill sound of alarm clocks continued to wake manv a ale man for an eight o ' clock class. M.iiin were cutting weekend lectures, A victory for Abraham. 14