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...pair of grey pin stripe trousers was the first item auctioned off by Carol Fraser '50 yesterday during a lost and found sale held in Agassiz House. A Radcliffe janitor snapped up this first offering for 50 cents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Haberdasher | 10/27/1948 | See Source »

...modest way, Raphael Demos is an American success story. A Greek immigrant who worked his way as a janitor to his Harvard Ph.D., Demos now holds Harvard's imposing Alford professorship of natural religion, moral philosophy and civil polity (one predecessor: Josiah Royce). But in the current Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Demos has an un-American doctrine to advocate: it is high time, he thinks, that educators paid some attention to failure stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Fail & Take It | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...Janitor took...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alley Denizen Cope Week's Fare from Agassiz Pet Fans | 10/15/1948 | See Source »

...Henry Foy, the museum's head janitor, has a different story. "It stinks," he declares. "Got so we couldn't work around it. Then they moved it up here. When you open the window you can...See what I mean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mystery Shrouds Spouter Ousting | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...contestants had been neck & neck during most of their runoff campaign. Big (6 ft. 3 in.), black-haired Lyndon Johnson was the more dramatic of the two. At 40, he was a seasoned and ambitious man. He had been a janitor, a schoolteacher, a secretary, a New Deal youth administrator (he liked to say that Franklin Roosevelt had "been like a daddy" to him), and had served 5½ terms in Congress. He had been in close races before. He had run for the Senate against W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel in 1941, had been beaten by only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Neck & Neck | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

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