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Abraham Segel, proprietor of the College Tutors, said in defense of his company: "...our outlines have been prepared solely to be used as a supplement to the books prescribed in the course rather than as a substitute for them...
Felix's, the Mass. Avenue news store, which was the main local outlet for the paper, took it off the stands over two and a half years ago. The 25 sales made per week did not make up for the consistent criticism the proprietor received from patrons. Soon after it disappear from Felix's stand. The Capitol News Company, distributors of the paper the Boston area, stopped delivering Cambridge. "There just wasn't enough demand," said a Capitol spokesman...
...sees it, to yawn in Heaven than revel in Hell. This, she is told, is not the fashionable view: Heaven is so dull that almost no one but the English can endure it. Hell, run by an urbane Devil who is as eager to please as a resort-hotel proprietor, is itself a kind of resort, full of animal enjoyments for no longer flesh-bound escapists...
...Washington, Joe lives with his office manager Ray Kiermas and his wife. He gets back to Wisconsin about every two weeks, usually to give speeches. There he lives with the Urban P. Van Susterens in Appleton. Van, a lawyer and proprietor of a fleet of taxis, managed Joe's last campaign. Last time he got back to Appleton, Joe arrived, as usual, in the middle of the night. He went into the kitchen, dumped some baking soda into his hand, threw it into his mouth, and washed it down with cold water. Margery Van Susteren winced. Next, he took...
Connoisseur. In Albuquerque, N.Mex., the proprietor of the Typewriter Service Co. discovered that the check a customer used to pay for a new check-writing machine was a forgery...