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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...probably never been inside this building, or if they have it was only to look over the fascinating Rogue's Gallery of wanted desperadoes which covers the bulletin board and buy a stamp or two. But behind the row of barred clerk windows, Cambridge operations of the world's largest public utility are carried out with a considerable degree of efficiency...

Author: By Frederick W. Bryon jr., | Title: 'Cambridge, 38' Withstands Snow, Rain and Students | 12/1/1956 | See Source »

Cambridge, 38 is one of 93 branches of the main Post Office building in Boston. Although under the jurisdiction of the central control, it is largely autonomous with regards to most of the actions involved in mail-delivering procedure. Its area of distribution is the largest of all Cambridge postal districts, extending from the Charles River to North Cambridge and Somerville, and from Belmont to Dana Street and Putnam Avenue...

Author: By Frederick W. Bryon jr., | Title: 'Cambridge, 38' Withstands Snow, Rain and Students | 12/1/1956 | See Source »

...financial aid budget stands at more than $1.9 million, and is the largest such outlay in the University's history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Gives Financial Aid To Over Half | 11/28/1956 | See Source »

Benefactor Shriver's idea of how his early 19th century Georgian brick memorial should be decorated turned out to require the services of half a dozen artists and sculptors. On view last week was the largest item of all: a 640-sq. ft. mural for the main lobby, made up of panels depicting the early faculty of the Medical School, the early faculty of Johns Hopkins, philanthropists of Baltimore, the picture of Shriver's class of 1891 and a deep, cotillion bow from Bachelor Shriver to The Ten Famous Beauties of Baltimore, each shown "at the height...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Barrister & the Beauties | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...recognize the jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court. Commented the Wall Street Journal: "The four justices who voted against the decision . . . must content themselves with observing of the Supreme Court what Alice said of herself: 'Curiouser and curiouser! Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Double Jeopardy | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

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