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Wives and daughters of Boston's more adept coupon clippers and a smattering of almost shamefaced Harvardmen gathered amidst the lime-colored elegance of the Copley Plaza Oval Room early this week to partake of creamed chicken and the spinach that if fashion. In an effort to obtain a masculine insight on feminine fashions the management successively selected, wined, dined, and embarrassed an all-male jury...
...Amidst the gentle odors wafting up from the first floor Hayes-Bickford Cafeteria, HDC moguls laid out plans last night to lure Cliffedwellers to the forth-coming production of "Juno and the Paycock," and came out with this plan...
Global Division. Amidst these grim drifts and doubts, Clayton and the Americans at Geneva hope to slow down the drift toward economic nationalism, and then to let the results demonstrate what they sincerely believe-that capitalism is catching...
Second Time Around. Yogananda says that his earliest memories, as a mere infant, were of a previous incarnation, in which he was "a Yogi amidst the Himalayan snows." Crying spells and "prayerful surges" welled up in the precocious little nipper when he realized that he was no more than a mewling suckling. At the age of eight, he was struck down by Asiatic cholera. He was at death's door when his mother gestured frantically toward a photograph of her favorite yogi, and screamed to her son: "Bow to him mentally [and] your life will be spared!" "I gazed...
...Amidst the rejoicing over the Douglas appointment, there was a slightly grating note in Anglo-American relations last week. In Parliament Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin charged that Harry Truman and Tom Dewey had played politics last October when they vied with each other in recommending the immediate mass admission of Jews to Palestine...