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MASS. AVENUE POTENTATE ACCEPTS WHITE HOUSE BID

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"Sure I plan to accept, wouldn't you?" was the way Officer Harry Began put it. The Mass. Avenue traffic potentate, recently elected president of the Fat Men's Club of New England, last night told the CRIMSON that he planned to accept President Roosevelt's invitation to lunch at the White House.

For years jovial Mr. Bagan has been holding up traffic on Mass. Avenue at Holyoke Street for the benefit of the luckless individual who, at six minutes past nine faces an unending motor cavalcade and a class in the Semitic Museum.

Harvard is in for a White House boost as Began declared, "I couldn't tell the President anything but the best about you students--how's that suit you?"

Bagan became acquainted with James Roosevelt when the latter was an undergraduate.

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