Gradually, more and more Crimeds returned to the College ready to resurrect their beloved ag. And finally on April 9, 1946, the old-timers and hold-overs heartily thanked Art Hopkins and Mrs. Hoke for their yeoman service to the Service News and then threw the CRIMSON back into the lineup. A black flag hung from the bronze ibis atop 44 Bow St. that day to make things official.
The revitalization was swift and sweeping. The Crime's editorial pen was mightier than the Service News's sheathed sword, and other departments of the paper sprung into action under the guidance of the vigorous veterans.
Once again the paper contained five columns and Bodoni head-line type. These changes coupled with more progressive make-up and traditional eye-appealing, candidate-killing parallelogram head-lines restored the CRIMSON to its intermediate position between the Gutenberg Bible and the Yalie Daily in printing pulchritude.
Among the many accomplishments of the post-war board was the $16,000 Building Fund Drive of 1946-47 that provided much-needed repairs for the Plympton plaza. They spent $2,000 more in 1947-48 for the latest in office and photographic equipment, and the new Permanent Improvement Fund provision in the constitution assures the paper that trends and deterioration will be met when they arise.
1948 marked the diamond anniversary of publication that was no longer a diamond in the rough. Said President Conant, "As a former editor of the paper, I send you hearty greetings on this memorable milestone. All who have had the opportunity of seeing the University through the CRIMSON'S eyes have been especially privileged. . ."
The last five years were an era of parody rivalries, full-page features, and lightning extras. The fall of '51 saw a helicopter-delivered Dartmouth extra that arrived at the stadium just after the final gun. With the presses rolling two minutes before the game completion, Crimed's hearts were going this-way, that-way as wildly as the varsity's brilliant sophomore tailback. It was easy to see whether one was loyal to the CRIMSON or the Crimson.
Last fall, it was The Dartmouth's turn to parody the Crime, which the Hanover staff in 1951 had called "the newspaperman's newspaper and the best undergraduate paper in the country." Whether it deserves this appelation or not, it eighty years the CRIMSON has developed from a tiny literary sheet to a gigantic purveyor of news read by some 15,000 people daily. An on-going dynamism has characterized the first eighty years of Crime history, and there's little reason to suspect the trend will disappear.