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Spit & Matchstick. As "depression architects," the partners had learned all about making a dollar go far. On one of their first jobs-redesigning Los Angeles' Clifton's Cafeteria in 1933-they took out their fees in meals. When their plans won first place in a competition for the Pan-Pacific Auditorium, Wurdeman, a good man with a racket, spent his share of the fee to join the Westside Tennis Club-and incidentally to get some business from its Hollywood members. Soon Wurdeman & Becket were building actors' homes by the dozen. From then on, as Wurdeman says...
Apparently, the argument against adoption of the plan is that, even though two-thirds of the college population favors it, the dissident minority must not be "coerced." Why does this argument apply any better here than to other aspects of University policy, such as the cafeteria system, or the menus selected by the dining-halls...
Fascinating Future. While Vishinsky spoke, the "administrative" machinery beyond the Assembly hall droned on, too. That machinery was housed between weirdly impermanent walls; here & there, gaping holes revealed innards of makeshift wirings and scaffolds; the air was scented with ink, and cafeteria whiffs carried the hypnotically even whir of typewriters and Mimeographing machines...
Menus, slashed by the omission of meat on Tuesdays and eggs and poultry on Thursdays, will offer fish and cheese dishes as substitutes. Fewer rolls and slices of bread will be served both in the dormitories and in Agassiz House cafeteria, which feeds a daily quota of 500 students at noon...
...first group, using crimson paint, placed two-foot letters on B.U. structures lining Bay State Road and Commonwealth Ave. The cafeteria, reportedly hit Wednesday night, was repainted...