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Freshman once put a stuffed wild boar in the shrubbery in the Eliot House courtyard. With the diffused light glimmering in from the Charles and Memorial Drive just striking its foot-long head and six-inch fants, it certainly gave night man John G. Coakley a jolt; but he cautiously stalked the thing and shortly despatched...
After four days, the hiccuping subsided and he had his first good night's rest. He sent for his car to take him to the Vatican gardens for a walk. But when he finally came down to the courtyard of the Apostolic Palace, bundled snugly in his white, fur-lined robe, he took a long look at the lowering winter sky and waved the car away. He returned to his apartments and went to work again-until 9:30 that evening...
...setting the monastery looks much as it did when it was first built by order of King Alfonso VII in 1141-a low structure of age-mellowed limestone with a cloistered courtyard. Inside are three fine statues-of Christ, Alfonso VII and Alfonso VIII-taken from the original monastery in Sacramenia. Moss and Edgemon hope that enough tourists will pay admissions (probably $1.85 a head) to return them their investment and a long-term profit. Just to make sure, they have also added a few nonmonastic touches: a wishing well in the courtyard, piped music broadcast from a loudspeaker concealed...
Luise Vosgerschian, prominent Boston pianist, will be the featured soloist in the Music Club's Christmas concert tonight in the Fogg Museum Courtyard...
...Pignone workers refused to leave the plant. They slept and ate inside the factory, and some kept on working their machines. Mayor La Pira rushed to their aid. He attended Mass with them in the factory courtyard, talked strategy with the Communist-dominated union committee, and showed the workers that someone besides the Communists was active in their interests. Merchants donated meat, fish, pasta, bread, wine and cigarettes; the city and provincial councils scraped up 3,000,000 lire ($4,800) for the workers' families. La Pira fired off a letter to the Vatican, got a papal blessing...