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...with puppets on strings waltzing around behind counter, basking in awed glances of little girls. Stuffed clowns sail by over head, hanging from stuffed oranges. Mechanical elephant nine feet high waves trunk in front of my face. Little man with red face tooting "Jingle Bells" on plastic fife...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 12/15/1951 | See Source »

...drinking and dancing until midnight are in order. For nice people there are the Shelton Roof for dancing, and the Copley-Plaza's Oval Room for drinking. The Latin Quarter features Lena Horne, while any college man with enough drinks in him gives the performance at the Vendome's Fife and Drum Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOSTON BOUNTIFUL IN SHOWS, SPOTS | 11/10/1951 | See Source »

...Foundation or other philanthropic institutions in the U.S. (or the members of Congress) may have been impressed by the Third's astonishingly low budget. Two million dollars (or $10 million if it would take that in the U.S.) could be spent in no way more enriching to American fife than to provide us with a year of an American Third. GEORGE B. MUNROE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 29, 1951 | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...exercise are open to the public and will be preceded by a business meeting of th chapter in Harvard Hall at 10 a. m. The members will then march to Sanders Theatre in a traditional procession, led by fife and drum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Perry Addresses Phi Beta Kappa Exercises Today | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...Black Watch (so called from its somber Scottish tartan and original duties as a Highland guard) was first organized as a regiment in 1739. Families of three counties (Perth, Angus, Fife) supplied most of the first recruits, have continued to do so ever since, making the Black Watch "in truth a family, with ... ancestors and descendants." For 200 years the infantrymen of the Watch marched to war in kilts; with the coming of World War II they were ordered-to prevent identification-into common khaki uniforms. "But damn it!" roared an enraged Jock on hearing this shocking news, "We want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Highland Family | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

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