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...Harvard faces a food shortage as a result of the Boston area truck strike, one of the places students will be unable to go to augment dining hall fare is the Harvard Square Georgian Cafeteria, for after a six weeks' truce 40 of the Georgian's 47 employees walked out Saturday night and the management has closed up shop...
...dream of the "world clock" appeared "four little men," just as people in groups of four tended to appear in all his dreams. Only the Christian symbol of the Trinity fails to conform to this system of fours, and Dr. Jung believes that the unconscious mind therefore tends to augment it with a fourth element. This is probably woman-the anima, or earth mother; although Dr. Jung points out that the element of evil, or the devil, is also excluded from the God-symbol, in which it might logically take part. At this point Dr. Jung excuses himself, declaring...
...highly unfortunate that the University has decided to keep Harvard's major games off the air, as many graduates and undergraduate will be very disappointed, and a splendid chance to augment the Endowment Fund has been unwisely passed...
Paralleling The Lost Patrol (1934), the simple narrative of The Thirteen supplies its own suspense. Director Mikhail Romm keeps the dialog terse and direct, lets a rifle crack, a sand track, a warwhoop augment the action. Superb photographic sequences: the parleys with the bandit chief, one parched private running amok, the shots of shifting, sliding sand...
...biggest audience of the season rubbered last week when Jazzmaster Paul Whiteman stepped briskly forth in a black coat, striped trousers and chalky spats, sporting an overgrown carnation and a yard-long baton. They rubbered also at the 25 musicians Mr. Whiteman had imported from his celebrated band to augment the efforts of 101 regular members of the Philadelphia Orchestra. For two hours, supported by the orchestra, the newcomers tooted saxophones, snorted through trombones, rattled wind machines, picked guitars, shrilled police whistles, thumped tom-toms, pumped accordions, wailed on bagpipes, clicked typewriters, crashed dishes, rang alarm bells and discharged revolvers...