Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freshman Union will not be open for diners this summer, what with construction of the Lamont Library and all. Yard dwellers, along with Winthrop residents, will have to trek over to Kirkland for their meals. Men from Claverly and Leverett will form a gourmet's caravan to Eliot while Dunster and Adams do the same thing to Lowell. In all, only three dining halls will operate during the summer months...
...Bishop's statement said that, at 3 a.m. on Feb. 17, he was in the Yellow Cab Co. office when he heard talk "about going over to Pickens . . . to get the Negro who had cut Mr. Brown." The drivers bought whiskey, drank a lot of it. Soon a caravan of cabs was on its way to Pickens...
...tranquillity of middle-class life by marrying (1911) a rich Basque count much older than herself. Patient Pierre d'Andurain paced her docilely as she darted through Spain, Morocco, Algeria and South America. In 1923, the pair settled in Palmyra, Syria, where Queen Zenobia once ruled the desert caravan routes. There the count owned the Hotel Queen Zenobia, a mud-walled but lavishly furnished caravansary, catering to visiting oilmen, desert chieftains and casual Syrian commercial travelers. Within a few years Marga had turned this oasis into a haven of intrigue and flirtation. Emir Fawaz...
...Ventures. Planemaking will be a new venture for venturesome, 37-year-old Bob Fulton. After he graduated from Harvard in 1931, he studied architecture at the University of Vienna, motorcycled from London to Tokyo in 18 months, wrote a book (One Man Caravan, Harcourt, Brace; $3), made a lecture tour of the U.S., worked for Pan American Airways and formed Continental Inc. This last manufactured $6 million worth of aeronautical equipment. Main item: the "gunairstructor," Navy training device Fulton invented...
...little group of willful men who did not join the Dartmouth caravan, WHCN will broadcast a play by play description of the game this afternoon. At 1 o'clock the Network will go on the air with popular music and 50 minutes later will switch to Hanover where Gerry Weiler '49 and Lou Wainman '46 will handle the reporting...