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...Harvard College Library has received an anonymous gift of $1 million to finance a new home for Harvard's collection of theatre memorabilia...
...collection contains more than two million playbills, posters, views and plans of theatres--including the only known floor plan of Ford's Theatre as it existed when Lincoln was shot--portraits of players, and manuscripts dealing with the history of the stage...
...Jordon Collection will be located on the first (top) floor of the planned four-floor, $5 million library addition, to be built in the area between Lamont Library and President Pusey's house...
...main beneficiaries would be state and municipal hospitals and welfare agencies, which could collect about $60 million. Another $20 million would go to competing antibiotic makers, private hospitals and other claimants. For the first time in an antitrust settlement, individual customers could also collect-if they can prove their purchases between 1953 and 1966 by presenting prescriptions and sales slips to state agencies. Most likely, few would be able to do so, and the agencies would thus keep most of the funds. Drug executives warned, however, that unless practically all of the 81 claimants accept their share...
Beside Leningrad, the celebrated sieges of modern times are dwarfed: the 121-day blockade of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, in which 30,000 perished; even the more famous six-month German onslaught at Stalingrad, where almost half a million were killed. In Leningrad, which had a population of about 3,000,000, some 1,500,000 men, women and children died -of starvation or under the unremitting rain of Nazi shells and bombs, which continued for 2½ years...