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Eddie Grays Wedding

The Halls of Ivy · 1951 · 28 min · 4,232 words

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Good evening. This is Ronald Coleman inviting you to join Mrs. Goldman and me for the next half hour. When our sponsor, the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin presents the Hall of Ivy. If you like good beer, do as millions of people are doing all over the country. Ask for Schlitz, the beer that made Milwaukee famous. Schlitz tastes so good to so many people that it's

the largest selling beer in America. It has to be fine to be first. Ivey College that is in the town of Ivey USA. A lull between Christmas and Easter, between the hibernation of basketball and the awakening of baseball, can be a period of acute concern to a college president.

Thus the unnatural calm which pervades the Ivey campus as a matter of work and speculation to Dr. William Todd Hunter Hall, Ivey's president. As he says to his wife, Victoria, it is enormous, it's on in his peace and quiet.

You know, the absence of the familiar can be quite a frightening thing, like when one's put reaches for about a step, which isn't there. I suppose one reason that you're so good at your job is that you're a trifle psychic.

Can you read my mind? Yes. Yes, you're thinking that I'm much too perturbed over a very minor matter. Absolutely right. Turn the page and read some more. Very well. Erm... you're mad about me. Ah, you're just reading the easy part. The part in great big purple scythe.

But, possibly, possibly it's just presidential skittishness, but my experience tells me that at a time like this, with no major controversies raging, the faculty in a rare mood of contentment, the board of governors, all on speaking terms with one another, the budget reasonably balanced, something is bound to happen.

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