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...Christmas time and City Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci wants Harvard to give Cambridge a present. Something big, he suggests. Something like a chunk of Harvard Yard...
...Baltimore's Hank Bauer, 42: the Associated Press poll for American League Manager of the Year. Bauer's Birds were figured as also-rans by the experts, but their granite-chunk skipper (TiME cover, Sept. 1 1) kept them in first place for most of the season before they finally fluttered back to third-thus earning himself 53 out of the 83 ballots cast by sportswriters...
Unfortunately for the pair, Leverett elevators stop only on even floors. While they managed to cart the bulky rock from the eleventh to the tenth floor without incident, they apparently tired, and simply dragged the stone down the steps from the eighth to the seventh floor, neatly knocking a chunk out of each step...
...include 7,555 shares in Associated Dry Goods (worth $445,700), 973 shares in Arizona Bancorporation ($20,400), and 90 in Borg-Warner Corp. ($4,320). He has life insurance with a cash value of $20,000. And he also has $37,000 cash on hand, a sizable chunk of which is earmarked to pay for the proud wedding he put on for his daughter Peggy last June. Thus Barry's personal worth is roughly half a million dollars...
...elegant three-page defense of pedantry is typical; 3) a complete course in Russian and English prosody; 4) a learned if somewhat irritable gloss on 19th century literature; 5) a great deal of biographical information about Pushkin, which would be more helpful if it were collected in one chunk, not squirreled about the entire work; and 6) repeated masterly demonstrations of the art of literary insult. Dostoevsky, for instance, is described as "a much overrated, sentimental, and Gothic novelist of the time...