Winthrop Skirler Purchases Yardling's Wailing Bagpipes

The striking sentence "I am strapped" at the top of a CRIMSON classified ad, brought quick results to Allan Y. Davis '45, but failed to remove a set of bagpipes from the local area, merely transferring it from Mower Hall in the Yard to the room of Lawrence Brown '42, in Winthrop House.

Davis, feeling that the sale of the bagpipes "will mean another drink in Cairo" when he travels to Africa this June to serve as an ambulance driver," ended a successful period of ownership that started when he ordered them for the Yale game rally only to receive them an hour too late to participate in it.

Among the offers he received was one from a Radcliffe girl who thought the bagpipes might relieve her boredom, one from the third Eliot House crew which wanted the coxswain to exhort the men with them, and another from Huey Livingston, the Scotch janitor of Memorial Hall.