Word: avon
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From South Africa to New Mexico the University owns property in many obscure spots or else has "permanent" research centers located in distant communities. The term "Harvard" has a local meaning to natives of Stratford-on-Avon, the Island of Yap in the Pacific, and the Pyramid region of Egypt...
Harvard owns and operates Harvard House in stratford-on-Avon in England. The House, which attracts many visitors, was the home of John Harvard's mother...
Dollars v. Dreams. In the current issue of Feature Publications' Young Romance, the original love comic, a spoiled deb learns that not all her father's money can buy the ideals and dreams of a starving rural doctor. In Avon Periodicals' Campus Romances, a girl who steals examination notes to win a boy's love is shocked to hear him say: "If you'd cheat like that . . . you'd cheat in other ways." (Her sadder & wiser conclusion: "I know now that love will come when the time is ripe.") In Super Publications' Love...
...Good House . . . Dime Defective . . . Avon Books. All the Girls We Loved, by de Percds, a new Hemingway. Two bits. What the hell...
...local printing plant, one of the largest of its kind in England. Shakespeare recordings are snapped up in the town's music stores. Booksellers do a whopping business. Says one: "Everybody wants to buy an edition of Shakespeare so he can write 'Bought in Stratford-upon-Avon' on the flyleaf." The Bardolators also pay admission to Shakespeare's birthplace, to Anne Hathaway's cottage, and to the church where Shakespeare was baptized and buried...