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Leverett House students in all McKinlock entries and K entry of Mather are getting minerals in their water but they aren't at all nutritious. The minerals which are infiltrating a broken pipe lying somewhere under the intersection of Plympton and Mill streets, are making the water unappetizingly murky, and, worse, it has slowed down to a feeble trickle. Leverett students are advised that there will be no permanent need to resort to bottled liquids for water will be taken temporarily from a different pipe until this one can be repaired. This may however, take several days. At present, despite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'And Not a Drop to Drink' | 1/6/1956 | See Source »

...check point between East and West Berlin, the blue Ford sedan of Danish Newspaperman Henrik Bonde-Henriksen was too well known to draw the special attention of the Communist police. Seated beside him as he drove through one evening last week was a man puffing furiously at a pipe, his hat pulled down over his eyes. The guard waved them on. Otto John, onetime head of West Germany's counter-espionage organization, was on his way back to the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The Returncoat | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

...taxes; Madame Paula's satin-draped opium parlor, where a pipe cost 75 piasters (against 5 at lower-class establishments), and the customers ranged in rank up to diplomats and generals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Paradise Lost | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

Except for nice music. Pipe Dream is pretty much of a bust. It is so warm-hearted about a cold world, so high-minded about its lowlifes as to emerge mere hootch-coated butterscotch. Its bawdyhouse seems about as sinful as Saturday night in a Y.W.C.A.; when its mugs and molls carouse, what is meant to be lowdown seems more like a hoedown. And it is not just the madam who has a heart of gold; with all of its characters' hearts, Pipe Dream shows a positive Midas touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Rodger and Hammerstein's Pipe Dream | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...Chosen by the American Medical Association as General Practitioner of the Year: 66-year-old Dr. E. Roger Samuel of Mount Carmel, Pa. (pop. 15.000). A pipe smoker, Dr. Samuel thinks that wonder drugs are more dangerous than tobacco, said he had "too many bad results" in using antibiotics. His advice to young practitioners: collect your bills promptly, because "a person who owes you a bill is your worst enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Dec. 12, 1955 | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

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