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Ralph F. Colin '54, Adams, was designated publicity director, and William R. Lamb '52, Leverett, is new competition chief...
...little French town of Oradour-sur-Glane, near Limoges. A special distribution of tobacco rations had brought many farmers in to town. Children, evacuated from Nice and Bordeaux, sat down to the midday meal with weekending parents and relatives. At the Hotel Milord (Léon Milord, Prop.), lamb stew, a specialty of the house, was being served with a light, dry wine. There was excitement in the air and a buzz of conversation around the tables that sunny Saturday in 1944: just four days earlier the Allies had landed in Normandy...
...reflected some of the drops in livestock prices which had fallen 20% since August. In big ads in Chicago and New York, A & P compared last year's retail prices with 1953's (e.g., $1.08 for sirloin steak in New York v. 89? now, $1.15 for rib lamb chops v. 75? now and 90? for boneless chuck v. 65? now). All farm commodities had dropped an average of 12% under a year ago, the lowest price levels since Korea. With most commodities close to their support levels, farm economists doubted if wholesale prices would go much lower...
Fleece-Lined. In Chicago, when police caught Raymond Conners at the International Livestock Exposition with a lamb hidden under his coat, he explained: "It was wandering in the aisles and I just wanted to keep it warm...
City Councillor Edward J. Sullivan will seek official praise for students' lamb-like behavior last night. Contacted at a false alarm on Dunster St., which brought out four engines and was the only disturbance of the evening, Sullivan said, "considering the circumstances, the students behaved very well...