Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four members-at-large were elected, including two freshman independents, Roger W. Annenberg '62, of Hurlbut Hall and Philadelphia, Pa. and Philip C. Olson '62 of Massachusetts Hall and Plymouth. Also chosen were Tom A. Alberg '62 of Wigglesworth Hall and Seattle, Wash., and Bruce P. Shields '61, of Lowell House and Somerville...
Strange Treadfellows. In Philadelphia, a classified advertisement in the Bulletin of the Philadelphia Herpetological Society offered to trade a "live adult Komodo Dragon for Chrysler fire engine and three snowshoes...
...eyebrows of New York's License Commissioner Bernard O'Connell, and he ordered bras upon the ladies. As the troupe's American manager protested publicly, he noted that only New York, of all the cities on the tour (the group has already played Boston and Philadelphia), was affronted by authenticity. After the U.S. tour ends, the African dancers expect to go back to their villages, where they hope to buy land with their ballet earnings and live untroubled by license commissioners...
...units by 1963, and the House proposes 190,000 more units without a time limit, builders and city planners agree that the U.S. already has more public housing authorized than it can digest. Money has been appropriated for 110,000 units on which work has not even started. In Philadelphia, for example, 10,000 units have been authorized over the last few years, and 5.000 of them are not yet under construction. Cities are having trouble with rising costs and finding suitable "intown" sites.. Says Cincinnati's former Mayor Charles P. Taft: "You cannot move people that fast...
...Manie's Friends (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.). The list reads like a Who's Who in Show Business. Caesar, Hope, Como, Sinatra, Cole-all friends of NBC's late Vice President Emanuel Sacks, all working for union minimum to make possible a sizable donation to Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center. Color...