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...mind what he says. Once he mentioned that his shoe laces were frayed. The next mail' brought 46 new pairs. A theater offered free admission to patrons bringing four-leaf clovers. The day after Cedric printed the item, the theater turned away a 9,000 overflow, had only one cash customer. When he said a Minnesota serviceman in Alaska wanted a piano, Cedric got 19. Naturally he is in constant demand for charity drives, civic promotions, master of ceremonies' chores. And his commercial neighborliness earns him $54,000 a year...
Concierges and shopkeepers asked their intellectual betters what Existentialism means (few can answer, but many try). In the overcrowded metro a working man has been heard to swear at a neighbor who shoved him: "Species of an existentialist!" At one of Prophet Sartre's recent lectures, an overflow mob of 2,000 was turned away, a small riot occurred, and women swooned...
...late nineteenth century, the number if books in Harvard's library was estimated to double every 20 years, and a cry was raised for a larger building to supplant overflowing Gore Hall. The total of books has quadrupled in the past 40 years, but the need now is for a smaller building--not so much to house the overflow, but to arrange the existing collection for the greater convenience of students...
...taken their wives with them to college. Dartmouth plans to build a village of 50 prefabricated houses to hold the 100 new couples expected next March. Overcrowded University of Colorado is refusing admission to all out-of-staters but G.I.s. The University of Vermont has lodged some of its overflow in the Army's Fort Ethan Allen. The University of Michigan has set up a prefabricated "vet's village." Wisconsin's "Vetsburg" is a thriving town of trailers. Some 50 other campuses have trailer colonies housing from 100 to 400 couples. Unmarried students at Indiana University sleep...
After two years of famine, Florida was all set for the biggest horse racing jamboree in its history. Tents had to be pitched to stable the overflow of horses; enough jockeys were on hand to stock two race tracks; the tourist stampede had begun. The picture looked beautiful...