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...store officials reported that most people did their Christmas shopping early this year, and that their business from Harvard students and faculty members was unusually brisk, because classes end so close to December 25 that buying that normally was done out-of-state was done in Cambridge. While Cambridge sales went up, Boston averages dropped two percent...
Trading in penalties was brisk, with 14 being called. At one stage the teams were playing four-a-side, because the Crimson had been penalized twice in ten seconds for having too many men on the ice. This circus followed a third-period exchange of penalties which left the Crimson with a five-to-four manpower advantage. Then, for no apparent reason, Harvard's Dick Clasby took the ice, drawing an automatic additional penalty (served by Amory Hubbard...
Later, Ike conducted a brisk ten-minute press conference with a politician's mixture of folksy intimacy and celestial self-assurance. As in his NATO speech, he epitomized his goal in Europe with a resonant quote from the Bible: "When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace" (Luke 11:21). This was an apt quote for a man whose mission it is to arm and protect Europe against Communism. It is also a sentence appropriate to a man who would lead...
...didn't write that, and he didn't mean that. He wrote "Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons, steelyringing" as a brisk note, to be expanded on the next page, of barmaids watching the viceregal cavalcade. He then wrote, on the next line, "Imperthnthn thn thnthn" as a note, also to be expanded a page later, of a bellboy mimicking the [barmaid's] phrase "impertinent insolence...
...Beautiful Angels. Three minutes later, a small, brisk motorcade drew up at the school's entrance. From the lead car, a snappy, red M.G., jumped two young men who identified themselves as Inspectors of Criminal Police, Royal Court Division. Another young man calling himself Chief of Protocol Baron Jacques Franck left the second car and asked to see the mother superior. "No preparations," he insisted. "Just call a governing council meeting, for the presentation to the King, then call an assembly of the students and serve a wine of honor." "What kind do you advise?" asked the agitated mother...