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Social Relations, which now has only one-third of a percent less concentrators than Economics, has made the largest percentage gain in concentrators since 1947, showing an increase of over three per cent...
California, which has gained 3,758,000 residents since 1940, was also making records. It had now passed Pennsylvania as the second largest state in the U.S., a position Pennsylvania had held since...
...Limmer customers are themselves an interesting lot. Their feet (the largest being a size 16) have skied over every part of the world. The family collection of letters from customers indicates the extent of their clientele. One letter from the Belgian Congo thanks Peter Limmer for his excellent repair work on an old pair of Limmer shoes, and further acknowledges receipt of a new pair of white ones. When "some Maharaja was in Boston for a lung operation," states Peter Jr. with understandable pride, "we made him a pair of shoes with gold buckles and a pair with felt soles...
...unusual political alliance developed during the campaign. Curley has received strong support throughout the race from Russel S. Codman, Jr. '20, a Beacon Hill Republican and Boston's third largest taxplayer. Codman, Boston's Fire Commissioner, at a rally last night called on Curley's opponents to "desist from unfair and distorted charges of corruption in the Curley administration...
...goes on television with a commercial sponsor: the Ford Motor Co. While the session lasts (probably more than a month), Ford will pick up the tab for 15 hours a week (CBS-TV, 11 a.m.1 p.m., 3-4 p.m. Mon. through Fri.) over a network of 21 stations-the largest time sale in TV history...