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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along with one subway station, a lavatory, and an imminent city parking lot, the subterranean section of Boston Common also seems to contain a cow-tunnel. The Paulist Fathers have been building a new Information Center on Park Street. To do this they had to tear down an old building. In the sub-basement of the old building they found eight stalls. There was at first some question about whether the stalls had held cows or witches. (Several witches were hanged at the nearby Old Granary Burying Ground). In recent weeks the digging has uncovered a number of large cisterns...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Cow-Tunnels | 4/14/1956 | See Source »

There, sandwiched between the mattress and springs of Harding's bed, they found a small brown-paper parcel that looked as if it might contain a book-except that a small tube protruded from one end. Guard Commander Michael Buckley took the time bomb outside and placed it in a sandbagged dugout. Ten minutes later its gelignite charge exploded with a force that would have demolished half of Government House itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: The Field Marshal's Pea | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band (Victor 5 LPs). A whopping album of eye-misting nostalgia for any veteran of jitterbugging in Europe, short-waving in the Pacific, or lonely stargazing at home during World War II. The 57 numbers contain productions large and small of favorite tunes of the day, broadcast by one of the silkiest bands ever collected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Apr. 2, 1956 | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

When one has brushed aside the generalizations, then, one finds a House, friendly than most, and containing the same cross-section of the student body that all the Houses contain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutorial System's Vitality a Factor In Kirkland's Increasing Popularity | 3/29/1956 | See Source »

...intense irony to good effect. He varies his rhyme scheme to fit the special tone of each poem, and his rhythm fails only at one point in the last song. Less monumental, but equally effective, is "In Rainwoods," written by an anonymous poet, blasphemously dubbed Sam Hall. The rainwoods contain soft red leopards and a girl and a great sense of wonder...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: The Harvard Advocate | 3/14/1956 | See Source »

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