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...says, and it is an affair that is being threatened. The Photography department has to share exhibition, storage and study space with the Prints department, which has resulted in over-crowded facilities for both. And though the Indian-Islamic collection "just moved out of the broom closet in January," according to Cary Welch, lecturer in Fine Arts, it will take three years for most of its important holdings to get out on display...

Author: By Edmond P.V. Horsey, | Title: Emerging From The Fogg | 5/21/1975 | See Source »

...Allenwood's better-known prisoners is Cornelius Gallagher, a former New Jersey congressman with Mafia connections. Gallagher and Magruder became tennis partners (Allenwood has tennis courts) until Gallagher discovered that Magruder's task was to find out from him whether Rodino had any skeletons in his closet. Gallagher remained silent, although he realized subsequently that he was going to do maximum time unless he would give Magruder some dirt on Rodino. But there simply wasn...

Author: By Amy Wilentz, | Title: Mirrors and Blue Smoke | 5/21/1975 | See Source »

...procedure is the one phase of making figures that is excruciatingly boring. When I am tackling art unfamiliar track. I closet myself in my handicapping room with a minicalculator, a set of charts of all the races run at the track during the previous year, several big sheets of poster paper. A few sharp pencils, a bottle of Jack Daniel's and a belief that the ensuing hours of drudgery will eventually...

Author: By Tom Aronson, | Title: The Logic of Equine Illogic | 3/25/1975 | See Source »

...which is meant to be too involved for me to be able to summarize it. But this isn't the kind of force in which the structure of the plot itself is the entertainment--doors constantly opening and closing: first one then two characters forced to hide in the closet. Here the plot is about as lissome as a set of steel girders on which to hang puns, blowing like so many colored handkerchiefs with the command "laugh" emblazoned on there...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Slightly Foxed | 3/1/1975 | See Source »

Quick! Which Harvard intercollegiate squad boasts a 20-3 record, ragtime pianist Eubie Blake as an honorary member and a coach's room which is really a broom closet on the fifth floor of the IAB? Well? All right it's the Harvard Classics, renowned round-ballers and resident basketball buffoons...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Harvard Classics: Fun While Winning | 2/28/1975 | See Source »

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