Word: aves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George M. Cohan had an emergency operation for an abdominal lesion at Manhattan's Flower-Fifth Ave. Hospital. His doctor called it "quite serious," added: "He's going to get over it." ∙∙ In Hollywood Jimmie Durante broke a rib playing the part of a moll in an Apache dance. ∙∙ Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis lay in a Petoskey, Mich, hospital after a pneumonia attack. ∙∙ Oldtime Opera Star Lucrezia Bori, 53, turned up in Manhattan with her arm in a sling; she had broken her elbow in a fall off a horse. A piece...
...reason for adopting a name totally alien to our way of life. The ex-swampland which is Eliot House and the far-off wilderness which is Dunster are no more descended from the Romans' Campus Martius than are the peaceful preserves of Hollis and Stoughton. Both sides of Mass. Ave. are equally consecrated to intellectual grazing, luminating, and chewing...
...less than ten Schubert compositions, including the B Minor and C Major symphonies and the Ave Maria (sung by the famed St. Luke's Choristers), resound impressively from the sound track. Sauterne-blond Ilona Massey warbles three Schubert songs through the slow-moving picture. Before shooting was completed last spring, she did what she was kept from doing in the picture-married Actor Curtis...
Socks. Somewhere in England, Sapper Archie Campbell of Montreal went to his quartermaster for a new pair of socks. Attached to them was a paper saying they had been knit by Mrs. A. M. Campbell, 462 Ash Ave., Point St. Charles-his wife...
...busiest corner, Brattle and Boylston Streets converge at a weird angle. Opposite, if there is such a place, Mass. Ave. swerves through the northern arm of the Avenue, forming a dangerous and traditional bumping point, while Brattle surges through to the eastern arm to create another awkward rendezvous. The climax to this engineer's nightmare is the subway entrance brooding in the middle. With these non-Euclidean facilities, the Square tries to serve two purposes--a shopping center for students and a transfer station for in-town travellers. Twelve thousand outsiders shift El cars every day. Six hundred busses carry...