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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even venerable Memorial Hall has had its share of flames. In 1874a hot pot of melted fat caught fire, filled the kitchens in the hall with smoke, and nearly burned through the wooden floor into the main dining hall upstairs...

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: Fires Enliven University's History | 11/5/1954 | See Source »

...late French Artist André Derain used so much violent color in his paintings that a critic once remarked of them that "someone has thrown a pot of paint into the public's face." It has now been revealed that after he was fatally injured in an auto accident last summer, Derain woke up in a white-walled hospital room, attended by doctors in white, and murmured: "Some red, show me some red, before dying I want to see some red and some green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 1, 1954 | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

Like its Cake Box tobacco, over the years Leavitt and Peirce has retained a flavor all its own. Founded in 1884 to serve the Harvard man, it immediately attained primacy as an exclusive gathering place for upperclassmen. Around its pot-belly stove pipe smokers gathered to experiment with tobacco mixtures and help the proprietors perfect the Cake Box brand that brought them fame. Today, Leavitt's struggles to maintain its old intimate atmosphere. In a world of Shultes and Hav-a-Tampas, it still conceives of itself as a gentleman's smoke shop...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: Cambridge Cake Box | 10/29/1954 | See Source »

With Narcy's "hairy Martian" as a starting point, the French press ran wild, and a deluge of Martians has been raining down ever since. They have come in flying cigars, crowns, comets, winged mushrooms, even a flying chamber pot. Unlike Americans who have seen flying saucers, the French "sighters" paid little attention to the vehicles. They were more interested in the people from space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Martians over France | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...lawn, trampled down rose bushes or broke branches from trees to get unobstructed views for their cameras, a crowd lined the street. From Marilyn's lawyer, Jerry Giesler, newsmen picked up bits, reported that Marilyn was upstairs sick in bed "with a virus" while Joe "brewed a pot of soup for his ailing wife." When a reporter asked why Joe didn't move out of the house, Giesler replied that he "wouldn't be surprised if Joe stayed until the lease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Out at Home | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

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