Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge, the post is not quite so ostentatious. One local carrier puts it quite simply, "The letters have got to be delivered somehow." They do indeed, and for the students at Harvard and Radcliffe, they are delivered by the Cambridge 38, Post Office, located on Mount Auburn Street just below Brattle Square. Most students have probably never been inside this building, or if they have it was only to look over the fascinating Rogue's Gallery of wanted desperadoes which covers the bulletin board and buy a stamp or two. But behind the row of barred clerk windows, Cambridge operations...
When the University sold its stock in a local paper factory during the Second World War, it turned its back on one of Cambridge's more unique anachronisms. This firm, the Reversible Collar Company of 111 Putnam Avenue, is the country's only surviving maker of paper collars...
There are very few places he hasn't visited. He has been seen on Boston's newspaper row, and mingling with the seagulls on the city waterfront; he has gotten a shave and a steambath at local establishments; he has been tete-a-tete with Miss Rosita Royce backstage at the Old Howard; he has visited the Russian delegation in New York City; and, in between, he has occasionally been found on top of the Lampoon building at 44 Bow Street...
...started, as far most local historians can remember, sometime around the Second World War. Written records are scarce and biased, but the consensus seems to be that a CRIMSON editor was badly injured by a fall from the Lampoon roof while either stealing the bird or attempting to return it after it had been stolen...
...Spring of 1954 and 1956 Thresky again disappeared mysteriously only to be photographed at various local points of interest. He was returned to the 'Poon offices last June, but will probably not attain his former heights until the 'Poonsters scrape up $45 to cover the cost of resoldering him to his perch. How long he will stay up thereafter is uncertain...