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...distant northwest, this one takes in the Radcliffe dormitories and most of the off-campus houses. It is bounded by Shepard st. to the South, however, putting some of the Radcliffe dorms in Ward 8, precinct 5 (see below). Voting here will take place at Peabody School, Linnaean and Avon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polling Places Listed Below As Precinct Lines Run Wild | 11/2/1948 | See Source »

...Money in Thy Purse . . ." In Stratford-upon-Avon, England, Charwoman Mary Cowan spotted an ad for old books, packed off some first editions of Shakespeare from the Memorial Theater where she worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 13, 1948 | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...Redskins, Bowery Bums, Shamrocks, Commanches, Clashers, Bucks, Aggies, Forty Thieves, Rapiers, Red Devils, Lisbons, Champs, Trojans, Coriettes, Tiny Tims, Dragons, Jackson Knights, Vladecks, Bowery Boys, Braves, Garfield Boys, Navy Street Boys, Sand Street Boys, Red Hook Boys, Jolly Stompers, Redskin Roamers, Coney Island Boys, Beavers, Bishops, South Brooklyn Boys, Avon Dukes, Chancellors, Penguins, Robins, Nits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...perhaps true that Mrs. Riddle was very dogmatic in many of her views; it is equally true that your magazine takes a most dogmatic attitude, unjustified and childish, in presenting the history and present status of Avon Old Farms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...summer of 1925 I offered Mrs. Riddle $20,000 for Anesthesia Faith of Hillstead, whose record of 19,741 milk, 1,112 fat was then the record of the breed. My offer . . . was declined, and the cow died without ever having another calf. When Mrs. Riddle founded Avon Old Farms she by no stretch of the imagination owned a cow worth $60,000 or one-tenth as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

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