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...effort to brighten up austerity-ridden Britain, the Southern Region of the state-owned railway system devised a pub-on-wheels (bar car) which was supposed to be very quaint. The outside of the car features leaded windows, cream panels, false brickwork and fake timbers, and the motif of brummagem antiquity is carried on inside. One of the pubs-on-wheels was in service last week on the Atlantic Coast Express and seven more were being readied. They will have names like "The Bull," "The Dolphin," "The Green Man," "The White Horse...
...students. He taught every thing from Latin to math, coached athletics and served as town librarian on the side. The town soon learned that there was something different about the kindly young schoolmaster in the somber black suit. Fractious kids jumped to obey him; backward boys seemed to brighten. Even old Deacon Greenough was won over. He started coming over to dinner every Sunday night, bringing free bottles of Green-ough's Horseradish with...
...that the hitting has improved, the fielding has faltered badly in Harvard's last three games. But Stuffy is contemplating several changes which may brighten up the picture considerably...
...Besides his editorial staff of 34, including Pulitzer Prizewinner Leland Stowe, White has lined up an impressive list of outside contributors, e.g., Herald Tribune Editorialist Walter Millis, Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Critic Alfred Kazin. The Reporter will print few photographs, use cartoons and black & white drawings to brighten the text...
Princess Margaret, 18, growing up to shoulder more & more of royalty's responsibilities, appeared in Bristol for a straight-faced inspection of some naval cadets. Passing down the line with a solemn escort, headed by the Lord Mayor in full regalia, she managed to brighten an otherwise somber picture...