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...average of 25 books a day are either lent out to member libraries or used in the Deposit' reading room by people with special passes. Only 402 people have visited the building since...
...inside and out, has been the principal feature of the shop ever since one Arthur E. La Flamme first opened its doors and started cutting hair as the fashions of November, 1898, dictated. The enterprising founder, mindful of the French maxim "Cherchez la femme," saw how conveniently his name lent itself to the obvious pun. Hence "Cherchez La Flamme," which, as the years passed, was shortened to a simple "La Flamme...
...President Gabriel González Videla's democratic regime appeals to the State Department because it seeks political stability. Its well-conceived, well-prepared blueprints for national resources development make sense to U.S. lending agencies and Point Four planners. Result: since the war the U.S. has lent Chile a total of $86.7 million...
Before the building was opened as a guest house, it was remodelled extensively inside with period furnishings to match, some of them given or lent by graduates, others on loan from the Fogg or the Metropolitan in New York. The star visitors so far have been ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia, who stayed there when he came to speak at the Business School last spring, and Justice Felix Frankfurter, who was in Cambridge for a short time this summer. President Conant also stays there occasionally in one room he particularly likes-because it has a shower instead of a bath...
...average between Jews and non-Jews. Mrs. Berg likes to recall the time the Mother Superior of a Philadelphia convent wrote to ask for a synopsis of six weeks' programs. "She said the nuns were regular listeners but they'd given up the Goldbergs for Lent and now they were wondering what had happened...