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...exclusively to HSA; the organization has its offices on University property; and the very use of the name Harvard in a business operation close to the College has a coercive effect. The HSA may make contracts with other business enterprises for exclusive rights, such as that of supplying linen to undergraduates, thus depriving the student of the right to choose a service for himself. This also implies the coercion of outside firms, since the HSA can sign, for all undergraduate middlemen, a large contract which would have considerable influence over individual firms...
...between New York and Cleveland was at a virtual standstill. At one time or another, almost every one of the line's 139 electric engines was out of service. Unlike the engines on other lines, the Pennsy's GG1 locomotives have air-intake screens of imported French linen that blocked out heavy flakes but could not keep out the fine, windblown crystals. Sifting into the electrical system, the snow melted and short-circuited everything. Mechanics had to remove every water-soaked unit, dry it by hand. Said one Pennsy executive: "We were prepared for cornflakes...
...dead body." camera on a high crane zoomed from a great distance upon a spotlighted Betty Furness, making her Hollywood debut as a Westinghouse saleslady after a TV career spanning Studio One's nine years in Manhattan and 308 dresses of her own. Aglow in a white linen sack with appliqued taffeta flowers, Betty brightened one commercial with Guest Star Conrad Nagel, who told how a washer-dryer combination had lightened his load at Malibu Beach. "With as many as ten guests in the house," said Nagel, "you can imagine how many sheets and pillowcases...
...James A. Linen...
...princely style. To oversee the construction of his villas (as many as four going up at the same time), Palladio floated leisurely up and down the Brenta on a splendid, gilded barge, equipped with a studio for his ten to twelve apprentices, shaded by a yellow-and-black linen awning. The villas that resulted won in later years the admiration of English Architects Inigo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren and Lord Burlington, as well as American Thomas Jefferson, who used Palladio designs as prototypes for his own Monticello and his master plan for the University of Virginia...