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...local rationalists hauled her before the police, hired a psychiatrist for her, boarded up her healing spring, did everything possible to discredit her. At first only the primitive, the wretched, the poor, believed in her with the intensity of their massive, sorrowful faith. Bernadette's priest (Charles Bickford) found it painfully hard to believe her. The Roman Catholic Church was cautious, but at last was convinced, and Bernadette spent her last years in a convent...
...Glassless windows, made of transparent plastic sheets laminated to standard wire screening, were developed by Monsanto Chemical Co. to reduce wartime danger from flying glass. Also used at the Ensign-Bickford fuse factory, this reinforced Vue-lite promises postwar office and home partitions so light and strong that they may be easily rearranged...
...lids shut heavily. It was only eleven o'clock, but he'd been up for five hours now. Stan and Don had gotten him up at six. They'd gone over to Hayes Bick for breakfast, sort of a testimonial dinner on toasted cinnies. Cinnies and Bickford's brought back a lot of things. Then over to PBH at 7:30. Vag waited outside of Local Board 47. A silent walk over to the island in the Square, trying to think of something important to say. Nothing. Hurried, cold handshakes. "Don't forget to write," Vag had said. Then...
Planting his feet carefully in the icy ruts, a Freshman shivered across Mass Avenue toward Hayes-Bickford. It was cold and he had 123 more pages of Thompson and Johnson. As he reached the sidewalk something fell away from a dark figure in front of him. It was one of the Navy men, who'd dropped a book. The Freshmen leaned down at the same time as the man with the stocking cap on, and picked up the book and handed it to him. They both went into Hayes-Bick, and, walking in, the Freshman said, "Sort of cold...
Here is Harvard's chance to prove that its patriotism is not confined to the coffee-tables of Hayes-Bickford. All you have to do is to fill out one of the cards which will be passed out in the House Dining Halls later this week, and appear at the proper place. Three hours on a Monday night is no great sacrifice, and you can feel sure that you are doing the Army a vital service...