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According to the College network chief technician, Augustus J. Fabens '53, the reception problem is only a slight one and has come up in very few places in the University...
While improvements were installed last summer, about 60 percent of the station staff held professional radio jobs, including General Manager Alan J. Bell '53, Program Director Richard S. Rosenbloom '54, and Chief Engineer Augustus J. Fabens...
Sharp Answer. In Bridgeport, Conn., James Augustus. 29. taken to the hospital with cuts on his left hand, right arm and chest, told police that his wife took after him with a kitchen knife when he asked, at bedtime: "Why don't we have clean sheets...
Britain's dean of portrait painters is a fierce-looking, bearded 75-year-old named Augustus John. In his long life he has been almost everywhere, has known and painted practically everyone he considered worth knowing, and he loves to talk about it. Having finally arrived at what he lightly calls the "Halfway House" of life, John thought it was time to get his memories in print. Next week his book will be on sale in U.S. shops. Chiaroscuro: Fragments of Autobiography (Pellegrini & Cudahy: $5) is indeed one of the most fragmentary autobiographies ever written. But the fragments...
...Rome has celebrated Ferragosto for some 2,000 years. Most historians trace its origin to the three-day jeriae augustales (holidays of Augustus) proclaimed in 29 B.C. in honor of the triumphant return of Caesar Augustus from his campaign against Antony and Cleopatra. Some say it has even earlier beginnings. Six centuries later it became a universal Roman Catholic holiday, celebrating the anniversary of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary into heaven...