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Fate of the much-discussed "pillbox" kiosk in Harvard Square will be decided at a meeting between Cambridge police and Boston El officials next Tuesday, according to word received yesterday from the transit department at Police headquarters...
Always a sore spot in the minds of traffic officials, the kiosk was the subject of much debate recently, when a runaway bus rammed into the "pillbox" crushing two persons to death and leaving a path of injured in its wake...
...through the dilemma. A paltry nine thousand scholars wander and mill about for eight hours a day. Then there's the pleasure traffic, trolleys, trucks and taxis. Thus the problem centers around two cureable factors--the great number of busses and the great space absorbed by the subway kiosk in the middle...
...Catholic authorities gave in, allowed Brother Andre to purchase, with funds donated, a plot opposite the college, build a small wooden kiosk. By this time superstitious folk believed a story that Brother Andre had visited the Archbishop of Montreal, convinced him of his supernatural powers by paralyzing the prelate's limbs. Devout Catholics gave more & more money which enabled Brother Andre to build first a small chapel, then a bigger one, finally, with $2,000,000, to begin work on a great Oratory of St. Joseph. This building, which will eventually cost some $6,000,000, is planned...
...gong sounded feebly, horns droned, strings quavered mistily and the curtain went up on what was supposed to be a kiosk on the Bosporus. Composer Seymour had taken his plot from Author Harrison Griswold Dwight's Stamboul Nights. A Hollywood friend named H. C. Tracy had hacked out the libretto. But, at first, words were lost while the audience gaped in bewilderment at Frederick Kiesler's setting. The kiosk resembled the turret of a battleship topped by an old-fashioned lampshade. To suggest the garden a lighting arrangement projected on the backdrop a horizontal stem and four...