Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Damping wide-spread rumors that a steep rent increase was on the way, Edward L. Francis '28, yesterday assured tenants of the Harvard Housing Trust--including Holden Green, Shaylor Lane, and Gibson Terrace--that no general raise was presently under consideration...
...Including governors of seven states, 17 university presidents, Henry L. Stimson, Harold Stassen, Jim Farley, Joseph C. Grew, Banker A. P. Giannini, Author John P. Marquand, the Right Rev. William T. Manning (retired Episcopal Bishop of New York), ex-G.I. Cartoonist Bill Mauldin (see PRESS), and Historian James Truslow Adams...
...over the U.S., government and industrial laboratories are working on rockets, the most promising weapons for World War III. Most of the work is secret, but last week the Glenn L. Martin Co. of Baltimore told a few facts about a long-range rocket it is developing for the Navy. The new Martin missile will be called the Neptune: the name symbolizes the Navy's contention that rockets are seagoing weapons...
...year-old Edis, trained in the bel canto tradition, revealed a good dramatic soprano voice, whose only major flaw was an occasional dry, pingless top note. She also knew how to act, and her trim figure, revealed for the seduction of the monk Athanaël in the first act, made Paris audiences forget all the baggy Thaïses they had ever seen. Many a Frenchman (including Composer Massenet's nephew, Pierre) was reminded, in Edis' best moments, of an earlier Thaïs, Mary Garden. The comparison was appropriate: Manhattan-born Edis de Philippe had studied...
After 24 years as superintendent of House dining halls, Roy L. Westcott announced his retirement as effective this week. Assuming Westcott's duties will be his former assistant, William A. Heaman, who first came here in 1924 as superintendent of the Union...