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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England Steel Mill Organizing Corporation" with a capital of $300,000 to promote private investment in the plant. The Council, too, has emphasized strongly that it would not care to have the New England mill merely a branch of one of the midwestern steel companies. Though the local enterprise will need help in organizing from the more experienced steel manufacturers, it will eventually, according to the Council, be completely independent...
Students not up to the trek to New Haven can see the game on the many sets in the University, including those in Adams, Winthrop, and Lowell Houses. The Union Committee is holding a special smoker centered around their television set. As always, local bars will be available with television to those who want to simulate the extra curricular of watching a football game and don't mind standing...
Unfortunately, the war and its aftermath have not brought in their wake any sudden upturn in business ethics. And while most local tradesmen treat students fairly, there are always a few on the periphery of the Square business world who are governed by the famous motto of P. T. Barnum. The recent rash of threatened suits against a local furniture dealer is evidence of this condition...
...subject is ghosts; the treatment is neither scary nor funny--merely heavy-handed. James Mason, as a retired businessman, and his wife, Barbara Mullen, bring their 40 years experience in the drapery business to battle with a frustrated young ghost who haunts their newly-bought country house. Local gossip whispers that an attractive girl was smothered to death there 40 years before by some avaricious caretakers who wanted her inheritance. Mason and Mullen are unimpressed until she begins to whistle in the speaking tubes and bother the help...
Adams, second in the local standings, will play Saybrook while Winthrop tackles Jonathan Edwards. Berkeley and Kirkland will renew theier traditional rivairy while Lowell and Trumbull and Leverett and Timothy Dwight are the other scheduled contests...