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...Fourteen New England area colleges, including nine girls' schools, sent representatives to Phillips Brooks House Saturday for a conference on community service work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 14 School Conference Studies Social Work | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

...difficulties involved in getting the bells into the tower proved so great, however, that many wondered whether Crane's effort had been worthwhile. A group of men spent four hours moving the largest one, a fourteen ton affair, from its truck, and it nearly crashed to the ground anyway. All the bells were stored in a shack near Gore Hall while scaffolding was built along the sides of the tower. One winter alone was consumed in hoisting the carillon to its final perch...

Author: By Dennis E. Brown, | Title: Bellboys and Tailors | 4/21/1954 | See Source »

Accompanying her are two other stars who were not so well known fourteen years ago, but whose performances were accurate prevues of the future. Broderick Crawford, as a fellow derelict, is a slob not so far removed from his role in All the king's Men. Unfortunately he has little to do but yell "gangway" while ushering Dietrich through crowds of unrestrained worshippers. And John Wayne, playing a wholesome young lieutenant, has not strayed much from the clean-cut but two-fisted type...

Author: By Dennis E. Brown, | Title: Seven Sinners | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...Bushmen were friendly and hospitable hosts for fourteen months. "We never even say a quarrel among them during the whole time we were there." Marshall recalls. "At the end they were very sorry to see us leave and we were sorry to go." Besides good-will, the expedition brought back 120 pounds of written notes and tens of thousands of photographs of the Bushman in his native habitat...

Author: By Daniel A. Rezneck, | Title: Peabody Museum: Lures for Laymen, Nerve-Centre for the Anthropologist | 2/5/1954 | See Source »

...short time after the tornado hit Louisiana, a storm struck the area around Fitler, Miss., in the Mississippi River delta north of Vicksburg. Fourteen persons were reported injured, at least one seriously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tornado Buffets Louisiana, Injures 20, Wreeks Homes | 12/4/1953 | See Source »

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