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Even the old March 15 jokes failed to carry over to the new deadline of April 15. Back in the 1930s, when Actress Carole Lombard, following the lead of a Supreme Court justice, said that she liked to pay taxes, there was an almost audible national gasp. But familiarity breeds...
Meanwhile, the taxpayer, seeking to avoid Professor Bowling's tag of infantilism, will take what comfort and maturity he can find from the late Oliver Wendell Holmes's remark that "taxes are what we pay for civilized society." In the contemporary scene purchasable civilization means, mostly, defense against...
A travelling salesman from Arlington invaded Holmes Hall, home of all Radcliffe girls remaining over the spring recess, last Wednesday morning at 4 a.m. He was apprehended by police and a watchman.
The intruder pounded on the locked front door for several minutes, then entered through a rear basement door by breaking a pane and opening it from within. He went at once to the third floor, opening and slamming every door. Mrs. Heddy Schunscher, the Holmes Housemother, rang the "wake up...
Other marshals will be Eleanor M. Bronson of Holmes Hall and Yakims, Wash, Commencement chairman; Ann C. Crawford of 13 Walker St. and New York City, baccalaureate chairman; and Betsy C. Ross of Briggs and New York City and Jane B. Flanders of Holmes and West Orange, N.J., co-chairmen...