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...Canary & Lime. Settlemayer knew what he wanted to do. He had been interested in libraries since he got a job, at 13, as a part-time page boy in Cincinnati. "My primary job," Settlemayer says, "was to shelve books. But my secondary job was to go next door and get the firemen to put out kids who made any noise." Instead of putting people out, Librarian Settlemayer figured that he should be bringing them in -and the more the merrier...
...knees before the Holy Door of St. Peter's, white-mantled Pope Pius XII lifted a golden trowel. In the center of the door's threshold, he placed a dab of slaked lime with the words: "In fide et virtute Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Filii Dei Vivi [In the faith and the strength of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God]." Continuing to intone the Latin formula, he placed lime to the right and left on the threshold, then laid three bricks-one gilt and two silvered-in the mortar. Thus, a year after...
...Varsity Club not only provided a large number of its faithful with an edible portion of roast beef (Flanked by french fries and lime beans). Friday night last, but also came within a G-string of presenting an exhibition on the violin by Phil Isenberg. Isenberg, who specializes in punching people's faces off in the winter and racking up enemy ball-carriers in the autumn, was to have accompanied Rex Johnson, but the tunes which Isenberg and Johnson had came prepared to render were not one. Johnson sang a number popular in 1890, after the football team of that...
Under BBC's wing, television got off to a world head start in 1930. But British TV screens went blank during the war and the U.S. has since taken an overwhelming quantitative lead. From its studios in London's Alexandra Palace and Lime Grove, BBC today telecasts over a single channel to Britain's 450.000 TV sets. Each morning there is an hour-long demonstration film so that TV dealers will have something to show prospective buyers. In the afternoon, there is either a good British or French movie or a women's program containing news...
...folly to live at Harvard College and cling to the dress habits of some other locality. Purple shirts and lime-colored pants may be the height of fashion in Southern California, but a man in such a costume passing through the Yard is likely to stop traffic and cause much derisive comment. This does not mean that lime-colored slacks are bad, merely that they look peculiar in the surroundings of the Yard. Some people, out of spite, will cling to their lime pants and two-tone jackets; it is their privilege...