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Opening the Doors. Last week, to celebrate the opening of the store, Ed Carter threw a picnic for the 3,000 construction workers (and families) who had built it. Cried one delighted carpenter: "You've cinched 3,000 more customers for your store." Ed Carter hardly needed them. The first day the cash registers had rung up some $250,000; by week's end the take had risen to over...
...eight games, but Saturday at Soldiers Field the Varsity football team stopped playing like eleven individuals and started working together like a bulldozer. Showing line-play, crisp tackling, and an offense, the Crimson blasted to the traditional win over Brown and thereby served notice that Yale, would have no picnic in the Bowl, come Saturday...
...Palm Springs's biggest winter season began last week, Nellie Coffman celebrated her 80th birthday by riding out to a picnic at the base of towering (10,831 ft.) Mount San Jacinto. There she got 82 birthday cakes ("two to grow on") from friends, some of whom had watched Nellie transform her boarding house into the swank Desert Inn. The story of Nellie had become local history: how she had set herself up as a sort of self-appointed Chamber of Commerce to bring tourists in, keep gamblers out, double as preacher at burial services, and occasionally help neighbors...
Charlie Caldwell's team was hardly rated as a power even on Ivy League levels, and what it did to the Crimson drove home with brutal effectiveness the cold, friendles facts that have been there for anyone to see since Dartmouth. Thirty-three to seven is no picnic; and after Brown's performance against Yale Saturday, the rest of the season does not look exactly like an amusing prospect, either...
...reward of the former Czech president's nephew, and eventually the same for even the one unlucky rider stopped by a flat, was not the kiss of former years but a cookie and a cup of cider. Later the weary peddlers also enjoyed a brief picnic with the Wellesley greeting committee...