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Charles R. Cherington '35, professor of Government, wants the College to move to Peterborough, N.H. But to forestall the Old Grad with a vested interest in President Eliot's elms and the brick sidewalks on Garden St., he doesn't want the move to take place for the next 100 years...

Author: By Steven R. Rivkin, | Title: Cherington Plans Peterborough Shift | 10/3/1956 | See Source »

...coolly respectable as Florida, and unexpectedly flamboyant; Monday, the lush, velvety valleys, red barns and wind-stroked corn fields of Wisconsin; Tuesday, the tall towers of Minneapolis, rising sharply from the prairie and gleaming in the warm sun; old, mellow St. Paul with its distinguished piles of Victorian brick and stone on Summit Avenue, where Scott Fitzgerald lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE U.S. IN KALEIDOSCOPE | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...their tops into their right of way. Birds generally fly at night, and when the sky is clear, they keep well above New York's highest buildings. But a low ceiling of turbulent clouds often forces them down to levels where they may tangle fatally with glass and brick and steel. Powerful lights on the tops of buildings seem to attract and confuse the birds. Sometimes the sidewalks around the Empire State have been littered with dead migrants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Safer Flyway | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...brick Georgian mansion in northwest Washington, where he lives with his wife Cynthia (a daughter of Davis Cup Donor Dwight Davis) and three children (Cynthia, 12; William McC. Ill, 9; Diana, 7), Martin spends his evenings poring over the financial reports that sprout in 2-ft. stacks on his mahogany desk and bookshelves at the Fed. Punctually at n o'clock, Martin goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: The Banker's Banker | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...situational" salesmanship aimed at creating soft-sell personality for the products it advertises. A recent consumer poll established that the average reader finds bragging headlines only 60% as effective as the copy that cajoles or informs. Says a veteran agency executive: "The kid glove can also pack a brick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE SOPHISTICATED SELL | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

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