Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gauged the temper of mild, white-haired Federal Judge Albert L. Reeves with the eye of a mule trader sizing up a parson; after that he did everything but shoot off firecrackers under the judge's nose. He objected incessantly. He told bad jokes. He brayed, waved his arms, and quoted the Bible with enthusiastic piety. On one of those rare occasions when the judge reproved him, he replied obsequiously, "Beggars mustn't be choosers and I'm happy to get what you're gonna give me ... I subside." Then he would continue as before...
...Washington, D.C., Purcell L. Smith, lobbyist for electric utilities, was refused a divorce though he pleaded that he and his wife had not slept in the same bed for five years, although they used the same bedroom. Snapped Judge F. D. Letts: "If I were going to divorce people because husbands and wives did not sleep in the same bed, I would have to divorce half the people in town...
...Eleanor G. Smith was named assistant director of the appointment bureau and Miss Doris L. Playze will be assistant nurse and laboratory technician...
...L. Morphet and Ray L. Hammon will be the main speakers. The discussion group chairmen include Alfred D. Simpson, associate professor of Education, Homer W. Anderson, and School Superintendent Ralph D. McCleary of Concord...
During the 1948-1949 season the 18-man PBH committee has doled out more than $6000 worth of tickets, Chairman John L. Moore '51 estimated yesterday. The agency has distributed seats for all major professional plays and concerts in Boston and Cambridge as well as for the various College productions...