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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

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W hat the Yale man read in his leisure time some- times followed the national pattern, often diverged. THE Xew Haven green lit up in December with its annual Christmas dis- play, but the biggest news at Yale before the Christmas vacation was the announcement that Professor Theodore M. Greene of the philosophy department was leaving Yale to take a position at Scripps College in Clair- mont, California. In his course in intellectual history Pro- fessor Franklin Baumer lashed out at the ' bitch goddess, Success which prevented so many students from devoting time to mental life. With this warning ringing in their ears, freshmen began heeling competition three months later. Rhodes Scholarships were awarded to James Griffin and Jacque Robert- son, who, incidentally, was managing editor of the Record. The smell of formaldehyde was over- whelming to those who spent their after- Corelli replaces Ackerman for 1 ale. ' David Royce in the Harvard Crimson portrays graphically the Eli ' s physical condition on the morning of The Game. noons butchering fetal pigs, and scholars were still falling asleep in Linonia and Broth- ers room in the library. Cleaning up the room for a date was still an unpleasant chore, although some found that the best way to avoid this was to go to Poughkeepsie, North- ampton, New London, or Boston. The winter was to prove rather mild; but between Sep- tember and May could be found a seemingly endless succession of rain, sleet, snow, and slush, following in dreary and inevitable order. If the weather outlook was not bright, the world situation was even darker. UN Secre- tary Dag Hammerskjold was leaving for China to argue the case for the thirteen American pilots, and Judge Gorman of the Chicago Superior Court ruled that a child born of artificial insemination is illegitimate, and the mother is guilty of adultery. On December 4, the condition of Pope Pius was reported grave, but not worse, after the Pope suffered a heart attack. He received the last rites of the Church, and the world knelt to pray for his recovery. Only two days later the Pope made a broadcast from his sickbed, and his doctors announced that he was much better. A paradox showed up in the news of De- cember 6. Peace and revolt shared the head- lines as the UN General Assembly voted unanimously to pool atoms for peace, while at the same time, a free-for-all riot broke out in the Japanese Diet over a motion to adjourn. Australia and America were set- tling their differences on the tennis courts, and Tony Trabert and Vic Seixas, coached by Captain Billy Talbert, finally managed to bring the coveted Davis Cup, emblematic of world tennis supremacy, back to America. 15