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...young officers looked at that portrait and winced. There is an immense difference between being Secretary of War and Secretary of a War. An old man of 73 was called to take that far harder assignment, and a year ago all that the old new Secretary had in his cupboard to start with was red tape and the skeleton of an army...
...sketches, turned them out for nearly 35 years, produced the wide-selling "States Beautiful" books (Vermont Beautiful, New Hampshire Beautiful, etc.). In the meantime he grew to be a recognized authority on American antiques, bought and sold them, once got $20,000 from J. P. Morgan for a Colonial cupboard...
Because the early records of the Harvard Alumni Association are "as bare as the proverbial widow's cupboard," it took William G. Roelker '09 to prepart the history of the Association's first stormy years which will be published in the May 24 issue of the Alumni Bulletin...
...tantalizing billing; then retired with a unique record of never having held a class, Meanwhile, sole entry in the bio-chemistry maw has been a half-hearted, half-course stop-gap called Chemistry 15. Next year, even it is to join the ghosts of limbo, and an absolutely bare cupboard faces the hungry bio-chem. concentrator seeking a dish to correlate his unbalanced diet of biology and chemistry...
...Captain the Right Honourable David Margesson, M. P., Conservative Party Whip, found himself in a very tight spot. Weekending at the Sussex house of his friend. Transport Minister Euan Wallace, Captain Margesson retired about midnight to his bedroom in an otherwise unoccupied wing. In the bed room was a cupboard (containing a washstand) equipped with an automatic light switch. When the door was open, the light was on; when closed, the light was out -or at least it was supposed to be. Captain Margesson, impelled by what he later de scribed as "childish curiosity," wanted to make sure. He squeezed...