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...multiple story garage on the Brattle Square lot and utilization of all other available space in the area would also brighten the picture, while a 1500-2000 car garage over the MTA car barn would be a major step toward a long-range solution, Morton said...

Author: By Ernest A. Ostro, | Title: Parking: No Backing Out | 10/8/1955 | See Source »

...volunteers have gone to work with brushes and paint and put colorful murals on the pale green walls. One attendant explained that the volunteers had offered to wash off the pictures, "but the patients," she said, "wouldn't have it, and the paintings are still here. They really brighten the place up, you know...

Author: By Harvey J. Wachtel and John G. Wofford, S | Title: The Mentally Ill: 200 Student Volunteers . . . | 5/19/1955 | See Source »

...wide area and concentrating it in an image bright enough to make a photograph in a practical length of time. The limit of this method has probably been reached; big telescopes are wickedly expensive and hard to build. So forward-looking astronomers are now looking for other ways to brighten a telescopic image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Brighter Eye | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

...very talented seal named Ezzy. Unhampered by dialogue, the seal, in fact, puts on the film's best performance, Colorful explosion, an occasional good scene with Mason playing the organ in his captain's quarters, and a ludicrous attack on the Nautilus by New Guinea cannibals also help brighten up this sunless picture...

Author: By Bruch M. Reeves, | Title: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | 2/10/1955 | See Source »

Young men who are eager to brighten her after-hours life come away baffled. "If she doesn't think a joke is funny," one complained, "she doesn't laugh." Wolves are discouraged when Grace briskly pulls on her glasses (her lovely blue eyes are nearsighted) and assumes her Philadelphia expression. Some suspect that she is, as Oscar Wilde put it, "a sphinx without secrets." Publicity men despair of her. "A Grace Kelly anecdote?" said a friend. "I don't think Grace would allow an anecdote to happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Girl in White Gloves | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

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