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Autographs. Hollywood movie studios and stars, burdened for years by the high overhead cost of mailing out 20,000 autographed pictures a week to fans, seized on the photographic paper and chemical shortage as an excuse to discontinue the old custom...
...actual awarding ceremonies followed the ancient custom of a recommendation by the Dean of the School in which the candidates have been studying, and then the acceptance of the degrees for the group from President Conant by the marshals...
...Murray Body is eleven weeks ahead of schedule on sub-assemblies for Douglas and Boeing. Cracked Chrysler Chief Kaufman Thuma Keller: "I think the auto industry will take care of itself." Big, burly Ford Production Boss Charles Sorensen remarked that automen had always looked upon the planemakers as "little custom tailors...
...MacKinney, First Marshal, Endicott Peabody 2nd, Second Marshal; and Eugene D. Keith, Third Marshal, and other Class Officers, the Seniors will march around the quadrangle of the old Yard, passing the statue of John Harvard in front of University Hall on their way to the service. Following an old custom, the students in the procession will doff their academic caps in front of the statue of the College's first benefactor and namesake. Upon reaching the Church they will be ushered to the front pews, where they will sit as a body. Invited guests will fill the Church...
...stately custom which has varied little in three centuries, the High Sheriff of Middlesex County, Joseph M. McElroy, will call the morning exercises in Sever quadrangle to order, striking the platform thrice with his scabbard. Other ceremonies harking back to Harvard's early Colonial days and its heritage from the English universities will be the seating of the University President in an ancient Tudor chair; the participation of church and commonwealth officials; the adherence to traditional forms of speech in presenting candidates for degrees; and the Latin Oration by a Senior...