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...news than to foreign dispatches; few parts of newspapers are read with more scrupulous devotion by woman readers. Once, metropolitan society newshens concentrated on the doings of the very few-a group rigidly defined by such social dictators as New York's Ward McAllister. Chicago's Mrs. Potter Palmer, Denver's "Unsinkable" Mrs. Margaret Tobin Brown,* San Francisco's Ned Greenway. But changes in American life and the hard realities of newspaper circulation-building have transformed the face of U.S. society news. Running a society page, explains Detroit News Women's Department Director Gordon Dixon...
...Street area of northern Cambridge, with the able assistance of a town planner from the Harvard Bridge District. They are as follows: Edward J. Coughlin Jr. '52 3L. Phillip M. Cronin '53 2L. Richard M. Edelman '52 3L, Robert E. Herestein '52 3L Rudolph Kass '52 2L, Samuel B. Potter '53 2L, David L. Ratner '52 3L, Malcolm D. Rivkin '53, R. Johnson Shortlidge '50 2L, James M. Storey '52 2L, and Charles E. Zeitlin...
...best fun there is in life for people of my disposition." Last week a heart attack put an end to Lawyer Arthur Garfield Hays's 73 years of fun and fighting. Among his mourners at a Manhattan funeral parlor were Old Socialist Norman Thomas, Dr. Charles Francis Potter, champion of evolution and founder of the Euthanasia Society, Gambler Frank Costello and Showman Billy Rose...
...task is undertaken in the current issue of High Fidelity magazine by Frederic Grunfeld, who runs the Mutual Broadcasting System's Musical Almanac. Drawing heavily on the work of the eminent British social scientist and author, Stephen Potter (Gamesmanship, Lifemanship, etc.), Grunfeld develops in a series of case histories some basic principles of Diskmanship. Writes he: "A single record, properly selected and bestowed, can serve to establish beyond question the authority of the giver for a year or longer," and persuade the other fellow that he is hopelessly tin-eared. Some successful Diskmen...
...college fortunately was unable to move at the time, and when it finally had to, through desperate need of space, the trustees found it less expensive to take over the old Deaf and Dumb Asylum between 40th and 50th Streets, right next to the half-covered coffins in Potter's Field, than to build on the botanical land. That land remained in Columbia's possession, however, gradually increasing in value until it became the site for Reockefeller Center. It now pays the University a yearly rent of three and a half million dollars. By the time this rent was coming...