Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When John Harvard marched off to war in 1941, the Savoy Cafe in the 400's of Columbus Avenue was already established as THE jazz spot of Boston. Manager Stevens Edward Connolly did S.R.O. business with Sabby Lewis, Pete Brown, and Frank Newton alternating as bandstand headliners to the accompaniment of a bar policy that hit the ceiling at six bits. In fact, the joint became so congested with characters that in early '43, moving day was declared to larger quarter on Mass. Ave., just across the bridge from Symphony...
Harvard will return to its pre-war practice of observing one-day holidays when the University takes time out for the observance of Columbus Day Friday. Accordingly, the next issue of the SERVICE NEWS will be published one week from today...
Professor Renshaw has proved that the human eye, properly trained, can observe instantly a complicated object (such as a tank or an airplane) and impress it as a whole upon the mind. At his Navy Recognition School at Columbus, Ohio, he taught 4,000 officers from all branches of the armed services how to do this trick. As graduate instructors, they trained servicemen to tell friend from foe before the foe got too close...
...24th Floor. The crisis between the world's biggest union and the world's biggest automaker would not be settled in Detroit. It would be settled high up on the 24th floor of G.M.'s building near Manhattan's Columbus Circle. There, in the paneled office of G.M.'s board chairman, Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., all G.M. problems eventually come home to roost...
Motorist's Paradise. In Columbus, Ind., William Cash was arrested after allegedly stealing a car in order to shuttle between his two wives...