Word: boxing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Like its Cake Box tobacco, over the years Leavitt and Peirce has retained a flavor all its own. Founded in 1884 to serve the Harvard man, it immediately attained primacy as an exclusive gathering place for upperclassmen. Around its pot-belly stove pipe smokers gathered to experiment with tobacco mixtures and help the proprietors perfect the Cake Box brand that brought them fame. Today, Leavitt's struggles to maintain its old intimate atmosphere. In a world of Shultes and Hav-a-Tampas, it still conceives of itself as a gentleman's smoke shop...
...tobacco scraps on the counter beside the stove. Up the street, where Bob Slate's Stationery Store now stands, they operated a smaller shop under similar arrangements for freshmen. The proprietors tried different mixtures until they found one undergraduates particularly enjoyed. This was packed up in cake box tins for Leavitt and Peirce customers to take home. Later it was shipped to graduates, who passed it among their friends, establishing the brand abroad. Soon Leavitt's found itself in the wholesale business, manufacturing Cake Box tobacco, cigars, and cigarettes. Today, the flourishing wholesale business guarantees the tobacco shop's solvency...
Knapp and Moore retained the open cake box, the forgotten pool room, and the traditional habit of handing out cigars at Commencement. And they established the shop among the elite smokers by importing their own Algerian briar pipes and stocking their shelves with ninety cigarette brands...
...manhunt of the title is an attempt by the Russians to find Gouzenko (Harry Townes), whose whereabouts are a Canadian state secret, and to liquidate him. The suspense coils down tight as Gouzenko is lured to a rendezvous with death, and there is a jack-in-the-box finish to send everybody home happy...
...delivering the lectures. They are: Francis Koppel '38, Dean of the Faculty of Education, Francis M. Rogers, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Philip H. Rhinelander '29, director of General Education, William G. Perry, Jr. '35, director of the Bureau of Study Counsel, Bart J. Box, professor of applied astronomy, Louis Harts '40, associate professor of government, Elating E. Morison '32, professor of industrial history at M.I.T., and Nellson C. Henney, professor of English at Suffolk University...