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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fourteen prospective buyers, including a big insurance firm and MIT, are already bidding for the old headquarters. Announcement of the sale will come as soon as appraisers can assess the value. Once the new owner moves in, there's a good chance he will be able to hire back some of the help Lever will soon be dismissing...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the local businessmen's associations are still clinging to their traditional optimism: they hope that improved traffic and road conditions, as well as the opening of Corcorans in Harvard Square this Friday, will help bring back the customers...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

Fournier has also promised to pay Arthur A. Maass, assistant professor of Government, in full on a similar charge at 8:30 a.m. this morning. The third claim hanging against Fournier was wiped out today when Burton K. Williams 3L was paid $16.66 on his demand that Fournier buy back a couch he had sold him as promised...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fournier Settles On Full Payment | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

...sigh a sigh based on considerable previous experience, and try to cross the lawn to reach the road to Laramie. He would aim towards the town, which he could plainly see shimmering in the distance, and plod along until his nose fell into a ditch. He would then back up about twenty feet until he could see this intervening obstacle, put his head down, and charge forward, jumping when he thought he had reached the trench. Pete's timing was bad. Most of the time he fell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shaggy Dog | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

...menus in a one week stay included three meals with macaroni as a main attraction, a meal made up of potato chips and an inedible salad, and meat loaf which tasted as if someone had misread the recipes on the back of a Corn Flakes box. Orange juice was always canned, and stewed fruits, and canned spice foods, not what one gives to a convalescing patient, made up the diet. Meat, with the exception of Sunday dinner, was poor and rarely present, while the fish on Friday had, better not be described in print...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stillman Food Unsavory | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

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