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...dwells in a world of beauty, yet no one has ever called her pretty. She likens other women to swans and skylarks, but finds herself described (by such an expert as Designer Cecil Beaton) as "an authoritative crane." Though she is a generous flatterer of the physical attributes of others, even her own admiring friends must strain to return a compliment ("Well," said one, straining, "she has a strange and marvelous spine"). Her walk has been described as a camel's gait, her nose as something stolen off a cigar-store Indian. Yet thousands of women cut their hair...
Match, the gambler, may have killed his possessive mother-or was it his indifferent father? The doctor may have pushed his brother over a cliff, or did he strangle his mistress? Eugene, a crane operator at a construction project, thinks he stabbed his faithless wife; on the other hand, he may have dumped a load of iron beams on his foreman, whom he suspected of being her lover...
Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 said yesterday that he will take no steps to have part of East Cambridge declared a disaster area after a general-alarm five there Easter Sunday, because the blaze had caused "no heavy individual loss...
...City Council last week directed Crane and City Manager John J. Curry '19 to seek state or federal aid for residents whose homes had been damaged by flying embers from the fire. Crane said that neither he nor the city manager had asked for aid, since the fire had been confined to the seven-story meatpacking plant where it began...
...City Council voted yesterday to seek state and federal aid for residents whose homes were damaged by flying embers and for communities that lose fire-fighting equipment. It directed Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 and City Manager John J. Curry '19 to hold talks with Gov. Endicott Peabody '42 and U.S. officials...