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...which had found only a 23.4% rise in the cost of living (from January 1941 to October 1943). Franklin Roosevelt had seldom seen labor so angry with him. He set up a committee, headed by WLBoss William H. Davis, "to look into the question." The committee included two labor mem bers, the C.I.O.'s R. J. Thomas, the A.F. of L.'s George Meany...
Economists sang: one evening H. E. Brooks, a good pianist who is also a mem ber of the British delegation, sat down in the lounge and rippled out The Blue Danube, favorite tune of Lord & Lady Keynes (the former ballet dancer Lydia Lopokova). The peer and the peeress sang the words for the delegates near them.' Money vanished: while delegates up stairs in the Mt. Washington Hotel tried to conjure up world money, downstairs in a little bar (with a small orchestra and drinks at $1 a throw), Cardini the Magician made money disappear in his long fingers...
...will resume activity Monday afternoon with the first regular practice of the summer term. Practice and maining will be held every afternoon all through the summer, and will include such workouts as rope climbing, relays, dashes, and featuring the "Guadalcanal Terror." the longhest obstacle course this side of a Mem Hall registration...
This encounter can hardly be compared with the brilliant spectacle of a few months later. Mem Hall was crowded to capacity that winter night, for King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, was inspecting Harvard and was the center of attention at the gay banquet in his honor...
...Mem Hall is no longer used as a dinning hall. In past years, in fact, it has been scarcely used at all and the cry has been frequently raised for its destruction--"an architectural hodge-podge," it is called, "an anachronism and a sore-spot...