Radcliffe Succumbs As Meatballs Churn

Upwards of 40 Moors Hall girls were struck down Friday evening and Saturday by what local fish-wives refer to "the green death." Harvard medico-legal experts, however, attributed the sudden onset of vomiting and diarrhea to "a gastroenteritis, consistent with a bacterial contamination."

No respecter of persons, the epidemic laid low both the head dietitian and Miss Katherine Fernstrom, Moors housemother. Focus of the infection is believed to have been a Thursday evening supper of Swedish meatballs, long a staple in the Radcliffe diet.