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Sometimes the University builders have been more concerned with the accumulation of indoor space than with the creation of beauty and too often economics or tastelessness have blotched the landscape with ugly piles; but the University has been generally fortunate in its assemblage of edifices. A path extended in an...
"I wish they would forget about my birthdays; they only make me a year older," said former President Harry S. Truman, turning 79. But a luncheon in Kansas City brought out more than 200 friends, and the grand old man from Independence beamed broadly as the crowd sang Happy Birthday...
The man who finally builds a better mouse trap (see MODERN LIVING) had better be ready to pack it in polyethylene, coat it with form-fitting plastic, ship it off in a fiber can, cram it into a tube or sell it in a tab-opening bottle. Otherwise, the world...
It is Americans who get her in a tizzy. They were bad enough in Russia, what with their great piles of luggage-"nasty-looking Americans, very rude." But they also crop up in Florence, and when Nancy kindly points out the Duomo, they inquire: "Until what time do the stores...
But as he says, "it's not my nature to carp." While he looked about his small study in Widener, every cranny filled with precise piles of books and pamphlets, he seemed a man who, having "willed" a highly individual existence, quite frankly enjoys it.