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...Begins." First LIFE feature, Franklin Roosevelt's Wild West, showed how WPA workers disport themselves in frontier style in the bars and dance halls of the new-hatched towns of New Deal and Wheeler, Mont., where the vast Fort Peck Dam project is under way. Prize shot: A pile of tangled wire dumped outside a rooming house, captioned, "The only idle bedsprings in 'New Deal' are the broken ones." Dispatched to the Northwest for some of her famed construction shots, Photographer Margaret Bourke-White came by chance on these frontier scenes. LIFE'S editors snapped them...
...Virginia flasco in the Stadium, the Crimson eleven suffered a relapse which continued just far enough into the Navy battle to allow the visitors to pile up an early lead. But by the end of the third quarter the Crimson forces had staged a comeback which indicated that the Harlow improvement trail had been found again...
...repeal the gruesome Monday ceremony (attended by two maintenance men with rakes and sacks) of collecting and burning all the odds and ends left on the field, under the stands, and on the seats, has grown less and less arduous. Bottles are placed in the middle of the huge pile of programs and labels burned off. Amid the popping of corks and the vaporization of many dregs, the maintenance men lean on their rakes and size up the visiting team from the size and quality of its "bottled goods...
Harvard had its first fire of the year last evening at 9 o'clock when a large pile of leaves blazed up in front of the main gate of Winthrop House on Memorial Drive. As usual, four of Cambridge's finest engines and about two hundred students turned out promptly...
According to Jerome Green '96, director of the Tercentenary, a pile of pamphlets about four feet high were received in the office on Thursday, September 17, just in the midst of the rush. His office force was immediately put to work to forward the pamphlets to the Cambridge addresses of the delegates and all but about 25 were sent. Since about 25 of the addresses were not known, this number of pamphlets was retained and will be returned to those sending them...