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...spend money in Boston? Why wage a fruitless battle against wholesale revision of the parietal rules. What the supposedly senescent and slumbering law and graduate students are doing in the Graduate Center could at least be equalled by the fine flower of our student body in its tenements. The grass doesn't have to be greener on the other side of the fence. Frederick Holborn '49, 1 PA Lloyd Rudolph...
...allies stood at the abyss of disaster. The Chinese Communists, pouring across the Manchurian border in vast formations, had smashed the U.N. army, this week were clawing forward to pursue and destroy its still-organized fragments. Caught in the desperate retreat were 140,000 American troops, the flower of the U.S. Army-almost the whole effective Army the U.S. had. With them, fighting to establish a defensive position, were 20,000 British, Turkish and other allies, some 100,000 South Korean soldiers...
...dedicating them to special groups and purposes. Examples: Founders' Day Sunday ("Why not honor those families that founded your church?"); Good Neighbor Sunday (special letters of invitation from the minister to all members of the neighborhood) ; Medical Sunday ("Reserve the front pews for families of doctors or nurses"); Flower Sunday ("when due tribute is paid to God for His gift of flowers to our world...
Died. Sir Archibald Dennis Flower, 85, who made a career of memorializing Shakespeare; in Stratford upon Avon. As chairman (since 1900) of the Trustees and Guardians of Shakespeare's Birthplace and of the town's Shakespeare Memorial Theater (1900-46), Sir Archibald hoped to keep the theater pure and local ("Visiting stars? Over my dead body!"), surrendered to professionalism in 1946 when outside Shakespearian actors were brought in as guests...
...cantilever fashion, thus allows maximum daylight illumination on all sides. Said Wright: "Up in the air is the natural place for a laboratory . . . Our industrial system has believed so much in science and so little in art that it has produced chiefly weeds. But now I see a flower among those weeds...