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...Northwest Territories just below the Arctic Circle. One striking fact was soon evident: though infants under three got polio just as older children and adults did, none of the infants suffered the devastating paralytic stage of the disease. And the infants up to three years old, following local Eskimo custom, were still being nursed at their mothers' breasts...
...Boston, frequent trips to Filene's bargain basement are almost as traditional as baked beans on Saturday night. Last week Wm. Filene's Sons Co. decided to improve on the tradition and bring the bargain basement to the customers. The store installed 14 custom-made coin vending machines in a new Greyhound bus terminal, to sell 20 different items ranging from a baby's rattle (75?) to men's & women's underwear...
...father, the headman, is willing to go along with this old unauthorized valley custom, but Salom is not. When the lovers escape together, they find themselves bedded down forever in a blizzard...
...Cook and his men did turn up their share of marvels. Europeans were amazed when they read such things as Cook's anthropological notes on Tahiti: "One amusement or custom ... I must mention, though I confess I do not expect to be believed . . . More than one half of the better sort of the inhabitants have entered into a resolution of enjoying free liberty in love . . . The men will very readily offer the young women to strangers, even their own daughters, and think it very strange if you refuse them ..." The news of islands where sex and sin seemed...
William L. Marbury, Jr., the newest member of the Corporation, was named in 1948. His appointment marked a departure from custom as he never attended Harvard College, obtaining his undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia and then coming to Cambridge to go to Law School. Marbury's appointment was interpreted as a recognition, by the administration, of the graduate schools, whose enrollment is about as large as the College's. Although Marbury was the first non-College man on the Corporation in generations, there had been a few others in the past including one or two professors...