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Some teachers, like Samuel E. Morison, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, never care particularly for cross-town work. His courses in Colonial and Naval History, among the top offerings in the Department, were denied to 'Cliffedwellers except during the period when Morison's daughter was an undergraduate there. Many courses, although offered to girls, were taught by substitutes or younger teachers...
...Fifth Avenue. It was held at the beginning of the Labor Day weekend, when most businesses were shut and thousands of New Yorkers out of town. But though there was little cheering or confetti throwing, two million people turned out to watch. For noise, costumes, endurance and cessation of cross-town traffic, it beat anything Manhattan had seen for many years...
...will find in New York that] what the advance advertising did not mention was the ugliness of the fire escapes ... or the noise and grime and smell of the subways, or the scores of desolately unbeautiful cross-town streets. . . . What is true of New York is true of America itself. All of it together, the splendid, shoddy, calm and frenzied are one thing...
That scared Forney. He stepped on the gas, ignored the red lights, dodged cross-town traffic as best he could, hoped no policeman would stop him. None did. The man told Forney to take him to the Psychiatric Division. When they pulled up to the door with a screech, the meter read 95?. The man struggled with his wallet...
Like New York's cross-town shuttle, track athletes the last few weeks have been traveling back and forth between Boston and New York to compete in "greatest ever" indoor track meets. Tonight the nation's commuting race-horses and lesser title-aspirants, including some Harvard entries, return to the Boston audience in the 40th annual B. A. A. Games in the Garden...