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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is the point of such a ruling--is there anything to justify its irritating restrictions? If the grape-vine serves us well, the objection to women in the House during afternoons is the same tired horse that has carried countless messages of rejection before, the doctrine of protection--protection, in this case, from one's roommates, House mates, and oneself. Apparently, the Administrative Board is concerned with the all-Harvard House ideal, where students who wish to study, meditate, palaver, or what have you are free from feminine interruptions. Between for and seven, the argument goes, it's time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Give and Taake | 12/4/1952 | See Source »

Although I am also disappointed at the defeat of Governor Stevenson at the polls last Tuesday, I cannot stomach the brand of sour grape juice served up in your editorial of November 6th in which you analyze the reasons for this defeat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOUR GRAPES | 11/12/1952 | See Source »

...outright prediction of a Palmer-like series of witch-hunts? The editorial reader Livingston attacks is no more than a deeply felt and statistically plausible qualm on our part, one which we hope is needles. Whatever upset reader Livingston's stomach, then, has little to do with such mild grape-juice as out. It involves ingerdients which he himself unjustly read into the editorial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOUR GRAPES | 11/12/1952 | See Source »

Cause for Concern. Recently, Hustler Rosenstiel has tripped a few times. When other brands came back on the market in volume, Three Feathers sales slumped about 90%; last year the brand did not even place in the top 25. When grape prices skidded five years ago, Rosenstiel dropped close" to $14 million by buying at the wrong time. And when penicillin prices cracked recently, he took another beating. Rosenstiel miscalculated on another score: figuring that the public would turn back to straight whiskies after the war, he plugged his straights (I. W. Harper, Ancient Age, Old Charter) more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIQUOR: The Schenley Reserves | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...April 21 et seq.), but by last week his "save-the-franc" campaign had fallen afoul of man and nature. Foot-and-mouth disease, raging in central France, had ravaged cattle herds, sent beef and veal prices soaring. A hot, rainless summer reduced butter and cheese production, ripened a grape harvest so abundant that the bottom fell out of the wine market. Rearmament cutbacks produced spotty unemployment in the engineering trades; French labor unions threatened new demands for wage increases. With

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Lesson from a Piece of Cheese | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

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