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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...including a big insurance firm and MIT, are already bidding for the old headquarters. Announcement of the sale will come as soon as appraisers can assess the value. Once the new owner moves in, there's a good chance he will be able to hire back some of the help Lever will soon be dismissing...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the local businessmen's associations are still clinging to their traditional optimism: they hope that improved traffic and road conditions, as well as the opening of Corcorans in Harvard Square this Friday, will help bring back the customers...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

...friends on the air, Bill was just another ham; he never admitted that he was a prisoner. For Bill, chatting casually in the complicated lingo of radio hamdom, it was almost like being on the outside again. In fact, he began to think, he might even get help over the radio in a plea for parole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hamstrung | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...that glory lasts but a day. A little while later he learns that the lovely little girl he befriended has become a prostitute. Novelist Marshall never lets the abbe get too far away from a good-looker. During World War II, a beautiful Jewish refugee whom he tries to help is executed by the resistance. Many of his fellow priests are theological hypocrites who do him dirt at every turn, and when blindness threatens, his simple confidence in a miracle cure at Lourdes is disappointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Side of the Saints | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...University committee under the chairmanship of John U. Monro '34, assistant to the Provost, was named Saturday to help speed up Harvard registration for Fulbright Scholarships...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Monro Heads Fulbright Scholarship Committee | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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