Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN a big, secluded estate is rented by an eccentric couple who order beef by the side, buns by the gross-and when the delivery boy has to leave the supplies outside the fence -people are apt to be curious. For what a Buenos Aires cop discovered when he climbed the fence, see THE HEMISPHERE, Big Red Schoolhouse...
...carries 18 of the reports with him, studies them between stops. He has a dozen people who normally work "for the family" following him (their salaries paid until November from his own $20,000 maximum campaign contribution). He is fretful when time is lost, and his relaxation sometimes takes curious channels. One night he flew to the West Coast, spent the next day padding through art museums, flew home next night, arrived at his desk in the morning with the comment: "Gee, that was a good rest...
...fact that people who have a vivid memory of the horrors of World War II are able to laugh heartily and without uneasiness at this character is a curious phenomenon. If he were obviously a caracature, an unbelievable reductio ad absurdum of certain germanic traits, it would be easier to understand. But Werfel's Colonel, while perhaps exaggerated, is nevertheless real; and the qualities we all find so amusing were terrorizing the world for six years...
...group was welcomed to Harvard by Edward Reynolds '15, Executive Vice-President, at University Hall. They were impressed by the size of Harvard, and were curious about the Harvard-Yale rivalry. The visitors were amused at the John Harvard statue, because of its erroneous date, and the fact that it is actually a statue of an unidentified undergraduate...
...developing 1,270 acres in Flint. Fitzgerald, according to earlier testimony, pocketed a $15,750 "finder's fee" for arranging the loan. A title and guarantee officer supervising the funds in escrow said Fitzgerald rearranged the escrow agreement to allow some of the money to be used for curious purposes, e.g., the purchase of a bull and nine cows to give the Flint development a rural atmosphere...