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While a score of student organizations prepared for possible surprise visits from the 1952 Democratic presidential nominee, Cambridge and University police made plans to handle overflow crowds at Sanders Theatre tonight. Anxious for a seat, one hardy Boston lass camped out on the steps of Memorial Hall to be sure of getting first place in today's rush...
...Switzerland's flossiest nightclubs, the Palladium in Geneva, Manager Jean Rings formed a low opinion of the talent of the lady pianist playing with U.S. Bandleader Joe Castor and his Hollywood Mocambo orchestra. The raven-haired lass, one Dolly Strayhorn, was plain butterfingered. Shortly after the orchestra wound up its two-week Palladium stand, Rings was awestruck to learn that Pianist Strayhorn was none other than Tobacco Heiress Doris ("Richest girl in the world") Duke, artfully slumming it, black wig and all, as a working girl...
Died. Kathleen Ferrier. 41, Lancashire lass who found her singing voice at 25 and was soon acclaimed one of the world's top contraltos; of cancer; in London...
Modest Proposal. In London, the Chelsea Borough Council abandoned plans for a big electric sign along the Thames waterfront after Councilor Margery Thornton argued: "Let us leave a little darkness for the lover and his lass...
Since a woman's place in this man's world is to grow and prepare his food, a Kogi man's idea of a good catch is a lass with a workhorse physique. He helps in the fields (sugar cane, turnips, potatoes) as little as he can. He and his wife live in separate conical houses. Daily, the woman cooks a thin soup of vegetables, sets it on a terrace outside her house, where her husband comes to eat. Nights, she lures him to lie down in the fields, threatening to cut off the soup...