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This week marks the 140th Anniversary of Pierian, in celebration whereof, a special Anniversary Concert has been scheduled for Friday evening. The visual enticements of the Radcliffe Dance Group will also be on display to put the final clink into the Sodality's toast to itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pierian Sodality Celebrates 140th Anniversary; Organization, Founded in 1808, Runs Orchestra | 5/4/1948 | See Source »

...land were the people with market baskets. As they went to the stores this week, retail prices were spotty, but some were down: bread, down 1? a loaf; bacon, down 10? a pound, flour, down 16? to 17? a 25-lb. bag. These were only pennies, but the clink of falling pennies was music in housewives' ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Clink of Pennies | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Goring's art expert, a Berlin dealer named Walter Andreas Hofer, stored the offering in the salt mine where the Allies found it. They found Hofer too, and clapped him in jail. For most of the first year of the occupation, Hofer spent his nights in the clink and his days in a Munich art dump, identifying loot. Hofer's filing-cabinet memory for paintings, and his willingness to remember, helped win freedom for him and restitution for Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: On the Road to Rome | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...streets were dark because Hamburg has no coal for street lighting. In front of one house, shabby passers-by gaped up at the brightly lighted windows, listened to tinny dance music, shrill voices and the clink of glasses that drifted out into the summer night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: Sour Cream | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...Harm in Trying. In Jonesboro, Ark., Jailbreaker Paul Hutsell was promptly put back in the clink when he walked into the police station, applied for a job on the force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 28, 1947 | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

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