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...jerking plea [Oct. 29] that the family of Judicial Nominee Frank Morrissey were so poor that their shoes were "held together with wooden pegs," he discloses his complete and puerile ignorance of skilled custom cobbling. For a long time, handcrafted shoes and boots had soles and heels secured by hardwood pegs. This produced a beautiful, unsewn appearance, and the pegs wore down commensurately with the leather, avoiding the damage to elegant floors and the skidding on sidewalks caused by nails that wear more slowly than leather, and thus protrude...
...Congressmen are housed in the old New House and the old Old Buildings), as well as nine standing-committee rooms, plus 19 committee anterooms, 18 small conference rooms, 51 committee staff rooms, 16 subcommittee rooms, a swimming pool, a gymnasium whose walls as well as floor are made of hardwood, tennis courts, a TV studio, and an underground garage with space for 1,600 cars...
...group of Negroes got into a house on 134th Street. Later, the Equitable Life Assurance Society gave in and sold "Strivers' Row," a magnificent row of brownstones on 139th Street that had been designed by Stanford White. The houses had 14 rooms and two baths, French doors and hardwood floors, but Equitable unloaded them for $8,000 apiece...
...been strapped in the bucket seats. The peasants were homesteaders arriving at the outpost town of Florencia to start a new life in Colombia's rich but remote southwest. By sunset, the air force plane was back in Bogota, 240 miles away, with a load of hardwood...
...Kirkland House teams gives them the nod for the league title. Sophomore David Taft, who one observer said "ranks right behind Keith Sedlacek among the back-court men at Harvard," and senior center Jon Cook provide a healthy combination of flash and stability seldom seen on the House hardwood...