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...Cleveland, the Pennsylvania's ancient, dingy Lakefront station has also been a sore point for years. In 1914 one irate user called it a "pig pen;" only four years ago the Cleveland Press vainly campaigned to get it replaced, offered suitable prizes to anyone who could remember the day it opened in 1866. Sample awards: "lithograph of President Lincoln, free ride in next stagecoach passing through Cleveland . . . views of pony express for your stereoscope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: The Troubles of the Pennsy | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

Applied Science. In Mexico City, when Forger Roberto Hernandez did not appear in court, it was explained that he had already forged his release from the federal pen and escaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 2, 1951 | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...Isaac Harvey Flack won a license to practice medicine in Manchester when he was only 21. Soon he joined the staff of the British Medical Journal, which he now edits along with a popular journal for laymen, Family Doctor. To avoid any charge of self-advertisement, Flack uses the pen-name "Harvey Graham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Woman's Ills | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

After the ninth letter, the ninth reversal, the judge committed suicide in despair. But his fiendishly omniscient correspondent quickly found other victims -a bishop, a prince, a shipping magnate, the chancellor himself. The police were at wit's end. Who was the poison-pen man? How did he come by his astonishing information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thinking Can Make It So | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

...compulsory chapel, but some dormitory members join in a hymn of thanks before the evening meal. There are few formal house meetings, but girls in many of the dormitories take advantage of pre-dinner gatherings to arise and inquire as to the whereabouts of a strayed black Schaeffer fountain pen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley: the Girl Behind the Teapot | 5/12/1951 | See Source »

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