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...Children's Theatre was an H.D.C. group and that all profits would go back into the till for future productions," Radcliffe Dean of Residence Emily B. Lacey '49 said yesterday. Through Dean Lacey the Children's Theatres arranged for the use of Agassiz for only the expense of a janitor and utilities...

Author: By L.thomas Linden, | Title: Students Agree to Pay Taxes on Play Earnings | 4/13/1955 | See Source »

...other things, they are credited with the sudden blooming of Class Day. Commencement being in August, there had always been a July ceremony called Seniors' Farewell, but that did not amount to much until Quincy's day. Then it became an orgy, highlighted by such scenes as "the College janitor, in vain protesting, yet not without hilarious collusion on his own part, (being) borne in wavering triumph on a door." The afternoon always began in Wadsworth House over what Professor Morison cryptically calls "cake and wine...

Author: By Samurl B. Potter, | Title: Wadsworth House | 1/25/1955 | See Source »

Indian Head Bonanza. In 1950 Fred decided to buy a Geiger counter. For months he worked overtime at his job as janitor of the local high school in order to accumulate the necessary $100. The day he brought his counter home, he poked it around his backyard rock pile. Immediately, the Geiger counter began to jitter excitedly, but when Fred located the radioactive rock and dug it out, he could not remember where he had found it. For three months he retraced his steps through the hills until at last, on a Sunday afternoon, he discovered the spot where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLORADO: The Front-Range Pessimist | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...Even after it inherited the state capitol building when the government moved to Des Moines, it barely managed to scrape along. In 1858 it closed its doors for two years because of lack of funds, and in 1862 it was still facing such financial problems as authorizing the janitor to "purchase a dog at a cost not exceeding the sum of $5 to assist him in keeping the yard clear of stock." Finally, in 1878, S.U.I, got its first regular appropriation ($20,000). After that, it slowly began to grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...arise since his dethronement and divorce. The hot word: he plans on marrying his current traveling companion, a voluptuous Nea politan named Irma Capece Minutolo, 20, whose right to be called a marchioness was recently disputed when two Italian newsmen declared that her parents were a chauffeur and a janitor's daughter. At the newsmen's trial for slander, Irma's father had indignantly complained: "To doubt my daughter's aristocratic descent is to slander the father of the fiancee of Farouk, whose wedding is imminent." At week's end, however, Irma herself hastened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 12, 1954 | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

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