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...serious aspects, such as Eliot's introduction of the professor's name into the course booklet, with light strokes from the local color of the day makes it tops for its kind. If the description of the hazers' "Bloody Monday" doesn't amuse, the tales of erstwhile room decor surely will...

Author: By S. S. H, | Title: On the Shelf | 9/23/1947 | See Source »

...main highways from Maine to Florida. Last week, tall, hefty Howard Johnson announced plans to widen out. Already under construction (near Dayton, Columbus and Cincinnati) were the first of 200 new branches that will carry his name, his ice cream (28 flavors) and his own brand of New England decor across the Middle West and into California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RESTAURANTS: Formula Profits | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

Resembling an oversize Foxy Grandpa, Griffis lives in an oversize, 14-room apartment on Manhattan's elegant Sutton Place. Five bathrooms are done in various pastels-one in baby blue. Decor runs to silver zigzag-patterned wallpaper, thick cream rugs. The bric-a-brac is Brobdingnagian. Twice married, twice divorced, Griffis keeps his current philosophy, stitched in a sampler, hanging on a wall of his pine-paneled library: "High hopes faint on a warm hearthstone. He travels the fastest who travels alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: New Gullivers | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...tutorial plan, Freshmen on the hunt for the ideal domicile naturally focus much of their attention on the social facilities of the Houses. The constant center of House social life, both day-in-day-out and Saturday night, is the dining hall, and when it comes to food and decor, the Yardling will find a considerable variety from which to choose. When it comes to matters of overall policy, however, such as limits on interhouse privileges and the admission of women, he will find the same restrictions seven times over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Open, Houses | 3/20/1947 | See Source »

Robert Flemming and Jane Baxter are more than perfect as Algy and Cecily, but the brave attempts of Pamela Brown, miscast in the part of Gwendolyn, are somewhat negated by her unfittingly low voice. The decor by Motley is more than suitable: it rivals the more famous work of Cecil Beaton on this year's "Lady Windermere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 2/12/1947 | See Source »

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