TOWNIES CHUCKLE WHILE NEWS GROANS AT YALE'S MOVIE ROLE

"Flick after flick comes grinding out of movieland to take a crack at Old Eli," moaned the Yale Daily News in a special article last week tracing the Bulldog's Hollywood hard luck story.

Starting with the judge episode in "My Favorite Wife," the News traces the "Let's Pan Yale Crusade" through "Hired Wife," "The Villain Still Pursued Her," "Love Thy Neighbor," "Strawberry Blonde," and finally "The Lady Eve," in which a bored waiter gives vent to a sneering "We want Pike's Ale, the ale that won for Yale; rah, rah, rah."

The chief complaint which the News had to make was that when the anti-Eli movies were shown in Forest City (that's what they call New Haven) theatres, all the local high school girls giggled and snickered.