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...Straus's family held a major interest until 1913). Macy's also works at burnishing its reputation as an avid civic booster, buying full-page newspaper ads that hymn the local theater, symphonies and sports teams. Its publicity-minded executives are adept at the techniques of both Madison Avenue and Broadway; for various promotions they have brought into the store a Venetian gondola, $75,000 worth of flowers and a menagerie...
...Tigers showed just how good they are in the ECAC holiday tournament at Madison Square Garden. In the semifinals, Princeton met the number-one team in the country, Michigan, and led the Wolverines 77-63 with just three minutes to play. Then Bradley, who had scored 41 points, fouled out, and Princeton fell apart. Michigan won in the last three seconds of play...
...Northeastern University: a 4-1 victory over Brown University, in the finals of the Eastern College Athletic Conference Holiday Hockey tournament, at Madison Square Garden. Outplayed for two periods, the Huskies broke the game open with three goals in the final period (two of them by Forward Bill Seabury) to win the first major sports championship in their school's history...
...happened if TV had been as influential in the time of Socrates, who was not very pretty; or of Moses, who had a great impediment of speech; or of Jesus, whose Hebrew had a strong Galilean accent; or of Lincoln, whose wart, beard and shrill voice would have made Madison Avenue get rid of him immediately. It was what Mr. Lincoln said at Gettysburg that will be remembered, not how he "looked or sounded on television...
This exhibit is being treated because it is handy and symptomatic. It should be reported, in fairness, that its art is no worse than half of the things on Newbury Street (the Boston Galleries) or Madison Avenue. And one or two things are included that could go anywhere: a painting by Elizabeth O. Jones and a junk sculpture, "Bird," by Stanley Sheldon, stand...