Word: placing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adams House, last year the lowest House in donations, jumped off to first place in competition for the prize for the largest per capita contribution. Adams House donations totaled $415, with the average gift approximately $8.95. Quincy took second place with an average donation...
...candidates tied for eighth place in the voting, and therefore, Thursday's ballot for the four Marshal positions will include nine names. Thomas C. Bagnoli, Christopher T. Bayley, Arthur S. Cahn, W. Clarke Hudson, Joseph K. Hurd, Chit R. Kapur, Langley C. Keyes, Robert S. Lawrence, and James D. Lorenz will appear on the ballot...
This town is full of people (especially girls) who insist on "atmosphere" for their post-date eats. And there's a new little Italian place up Mass. Ave. near the 'Cliffe--which has no atmosphere at all. Sure, it has rough-hewn benches, an indoor trellis with wax grapes, and murals of Italy. But atmosphere it has not. It is just a big, bright joint, with neon...
...food is fine, and they specialize in take-outs. More than half their vittles, indeed, are consumed else-where. So if you know a nice dark place to take your girl to, and have any time for tomato pizza, you can have both your atmosphere and your tomato...
...most interesting thing about this place is its owner, Lou Catania. A poor-but-honest spaghetti-puller from the old country? Not on your life. He barbered his way through the (U.S.) depression, marrying the boss's daughter. Aften ten years as a railroad brakeman, he surrendered to hay fever (dust in the baggage car) and founded a chain of pizza parlors around Boston and the Cape. "Leaning Tower of Pizza," that inspired pun, brought him national interest and the attentions of a large noodle concern. The Prince Spaghetti Company settled on Tower like a great leaking blimp...