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Flames tore from the hearth to the library to the Apparatus Chamber and in minutes the whole building was a heap of ruins. The Massachusetts Gazette of Feb. 2 reported that Stoughton and Massachusetts Halls were in great danger as the wind drove cinders on the roofs of both buildings. Also the "new and beautiful" Hollis Hall dedicated just days earlier, narrowly escaped although it was windward. The Gazette called the blaze "the most ruinous the College ever met since its foundation...
While Hawaiians were hula whooping over statehood news, Alaska's overwhelmingly Democratic legislature was finding out that it takes a heap of lawmaking to make a territory a state. Along with weighing a balanced $26.6 million budget and passing a reorganization bill setting up a dozen executive departments to replace 100 assorted agencies, the lawmakers found themselves blizzarded by so many minor bills, chores and diversions that the Fairbanks News-Miner accused the new legislature of "doodling, dawdling and dillydallying." Full of eager novices (only eleven members out of 40 ever served in the old territorial legislature), the house...
Though he does not act his age, John knows that at 77 he cannot count on a long reign. "Well, here I am-at the end of the road and the top of the heap," he told visiting Canadian Premier John Diefenbaker. At another audience he said: "I who have come to the pontificate at such an advanced age do not despair of receiving from the Lord at least the time conceded to St. Agatho [Pope from 678 to 681]. There are so many things...
Somewhere between high fashion and highfalutin' lies a heap of high-priced clothing turned out over the years for a peculiarly critical, not necessarily tasteful eye: the movie camera's. Hollywood rarely originates style, rarely fails to exaggerate what is popular at the moment. If low necklines are in vogue, movie designers drop them a little lower; if padded shoulders are in this year, every Hollywood dress slightly resembles a football uniform. The result is that Hollywood's powdered, pinched, pushed, pneumatized darlings flash across the screen looking just a little bit more like what every American...
...back at his best. Cast as a great big horrible actors' agent. Actor Wynn slinks about the screen looking like an absurdly prosperous tapir in dark glasses. But when a terrified female pressagent informs him that his big star is pregnant, Wynn reduces his face to a heap of malevolent hamburger, and produces the funniest line in the film: "Miss Baker," he snarls, "I shall hold you personally responsible...