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At the Drop Of Another Hat

By Jacob R. Brackman  • 

When Flanders & Swann dropped their first hat in the States, I was still lolling under the appleboughs. (Was Eisenhower


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Class Day Gives '65 A 'Dry Run'

By Jacob R. Brackman  • 

"Take yer hatsoff!" cried a cop in brogue as seniors, debating the advantages of hook-and-eye over zipper gowns, shuffled by


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South Pacific

By Jacob R. Brackman  • 

It might have been funny, it might have been rousing, it might have been all touching and goose pimply. It


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Washington's Happy Heretic

By Jacob R. Brackman  • 

In speech-making attire, a three-piece serge suit with wide stripes and wider lapels, I.F. Stone looks rather like an old


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Mailer's Violent Dream: Murder, Sex, Madness

By Jacob R. Brackman  • 

A perennial embarrassment for CRIMSON reviewers--the treatment of work already hailed or roasted by professionals"--comes over me now with unusual


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Puddies Hail Lee Remick With Festive Razzmatazz

By Jacob R. Brackman  • 

Nurses and pajama-clad patients jammed the east windows of Stillman Infirmary, phase II construction workers suspended riveting and leaned from


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A Woman is a Woman

By Jacob R. Brackman  • 

If, like Professor Higgins, you frequently ask yourself, "Why can't a woman be more like a man?" and go on


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36 Hours

By Jacob R. Brackman  • 

Presuming you're the sort who'd buy an Edsel from a used car dealer, or oil stock from Billie Sol Estes


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Martin Luther King

By Jacob R. Brackman  • 

Sunday, at lunch, Dr. King dropped a couple of casual remarks about discussing this or that with the President. I


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THE CITY

By Jacob R. Brackman  • 

Not the first of a series on great American cities, not even a contained little guide to one of them,

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