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...Reynolds Co. raised the price of its cigarettes-Camels will cost an extra cent a pack-and other major tobacco companies followed. Some textile prices had risen as much as 22%.* Emerson and Du Mont announced higher prices for their television sets. Rubber climbed upward and tire manufacturers increased their prices 5% to 12½%. Gasoline was up 2? a gallon...
...novels were written by some prominent pens. Buffalo Bill Cody was a contributor; Louisa May Alcott sold some dime novels to Beadle rivals. All sorts and kinds helped to fill the yellowbacks: an Iowa farmer, a temperance lecturer, an actress, a Philadelphia physician, a second cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a parson's daughter...
...gift for finding the kind of quotation from the great and near-great which seems more suited to an inspirational guide for speakers at businessmen's luncheons. He quotes Pearl Buck on idle U.S. women: "Work is the one supreme privilege which . . . will really make them free." And Emerson at his wowserish worst: "Five minutes of today are worth as much to me as five minutes in the next millennium...
This is the time of year when the platitudinous challenges to youth ring out throughout the land. Platitudinous because they must be. When faced with addressing a multitude of unfamiliar faces what can the commencement speaker say--unless he's a Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...Touch of the Times," a full length silent moving picture produced by the College's Ivy Films, will be shown in Room D of Emerson Hall both before and after the band concert in the Two centenary Theatre this evening...