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...university broke another custom by letting "the pride of Virginia, Mr. George Catlett Marshall," speak at the convocation. He recalled wartime conferences with Britons. The idea of understanding lighted his words again, this time with warmth. "We almost invariably reached agreement no matter how complex the issue...
Tuesday is a dull shopping day in Christchurch, New Zealand. At 4 p.m. last Tuesday there were hardly more shoppers than clerks in Ballantyne's, biggest department store in South Island. Many of the staff, following Christchurch custom, were at afternoon tea or were just ambling back to their counters. They smelled fire and saw wisps of smoke but, told that firemen were arriving, carried on with their jobs. Then, in a twinkling, the acre-wide building was a pillar of flame. Fire broke from the shallow basement, seared the main floor, exploded upward to the second and third...
...Most Poles are Catholics," he told me afterwards. "It is the Polish custom to start a dedication with a Mass. It has been so for centuries. It would be silly to upset so old a tradition...
William C. Murphy 2L, secretary of the Union, discredited reports connecting the internal upsets with Union food and noted that, according to custom, samples of the meal had been preserved in a deep freeze unit for possible testing...
...custom of giving TIME for Christmas has moved many of you to remember friends, relations, associates in all categories with a gift of TIME. For instance, a Camden, NJ. attorney wrote us: "Among those whom I want to remember at Christmas are my nephew at college, a lawyer associate, a doctor, a clergyman, a salesman, my barber, a school teacher, an automobile mechanic, and a radio repair man. For all of them, a subscription to TIME fills the bill to perfection...