Touts Choose MacArthur and Clay for Degrees

Local savants are indulging in their annual June custom of trying to pick the man who will cop Honorary Degrees in the Commencement stakes.

Yesterday the Herald sidled up to the general public with the information that General Lucius D. Clay, retired American Military Governor of Germany, is a sure thing. Sources inside the general's paddock tipped it off, the Herald claimed.

Behind the windows in Massachusetts Hall, the part-mutual operators refused to admit the race was fixed. "We don't know a thing about it," they said.

One week ago, the Boston Globe whispered that Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. '24 would leave all other possible entries at the post.

Six other candidates were tonted by the wise men ducted is the story to the left.