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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Supper consists of a couple of Joe 'n' Nemo's hamburgers at two for a quarter--plus a carton of coffee which serves as mouthwash and handwarmer. Through the window he watches Boylston Street humanity and the Western demise of the sun. Harold has been known to mumble a few words about the weather to either Mr. Nemo or the corner cop--but they are measured words...
During the summer, however, this sheet, which has spent 85 years satisfying those in Cambridge who eat breakfast, retires in favor of a journal known as the Harvard Summer News, called by those who love it Cambridge's Only Breakfast-Table Weekly...
Among the most popular paintings in the show are the works of two Milanese artists who reached their peak at the beginning of the 16th century (see color page), Bernardino Butinone (active 1454-1507) and Ambrogio Fossano, known as "Il Borgognone" (circa 1450-1523). Butinone tried to combine the perspective of Florence with the mastery of light developed by the artists of Bruges. His The Last Judgment almost overcrowds the canvas with drama: the archangel is dividing the damned from the saved (including a Pope) in the foreground, while Christ sits on high in judgment, flanked by the Apostles...
Since both People's Daily and Hsinhua (also known as the New China News Agency) are directly responsible to the party's propaganda department. Editor Wu gives his readers their three cents' worth of tract and polemic. Major party decisions are announced in customarily unsigned editorials, e.g., last month's blast at "deviationist" Yugoslavia. On occasion, People's Daily even carries punditry under the most imposing bylines in the nation: Premier Chou En-lai and Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung...
...fully expected to reach 120. To avoid dust, he sat only on leather cushions, slept on a leather mattress, and had the air of his Paris mansion filtered through silk screens and fine sprays of water. He reduced his handshake, proffering only the index and middle fingers. For reasons known only to the great mystery man, he preferred cotton to toilet paper. He slept exactly six hours per night, and declared that he permitted himself no dreams. He once spoke of Freud as a great talent gone to waste...