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...subway, Vag took a last look at all the shops, the shoe-shine boys, and the Yard buildings. He pictured himself coming back here, in a few years perhaps. Growing old while this place never changed. He pictured himself slightly paunchy, standing around the punchbowl at a reunion in fifteen years. Finally, Vag broke into Harvard Square and darted across to the kiosk. He noticed the new sign, "Subway to All Points." Well, that's where he was going...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 8/30/1946 | See Source »

From the same punchbowl that has refreshed visiting Cambridge celebrities from Anna Held to Tallulah Bankhead, the editors of Mother Advocate will serve ale to Somerset Maugham, famous English novelist, whose latest contribution to the movies. "The Moon and Sixpence," had its Boston premier last evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maugham Will Attend Advocate Punch Today | 10/30/1942 | See Source »

...fine homes on the heights above the city, in beach shacks near Waikiki, in the congested district around the Punchbowl, assorted Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Filipinos, Hawaiians and kamaainas (long-settled whites) were taking their ease. In the shallow waters lapping Fort De Russy, where sentries walked post along a retaining wall, a few Japanese and Hawaiians waded about, looking for fish to spear. In Army posts all over Oahu, soldiers were dawdling into a typical idle Sunday. Aboard the ships of the Fleet at Pearl Harbor, life was going along at a saunter. Downtown nothing stirred save an occasional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War, Tragedy at Honolulu | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

Headed by Captain Asher Lans, a delegation of ten Indians, New Hampshire brand, will arrive in Cambridge at or about 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon for the annual fall punchbowl classic between editors of the Daily Dartmouth and the CRIMSON...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON MEETS DAILY DARTMOUTH TEAM HERE | 10/21/1937 | See Source »

...then last Saturday in New York President Benchley of the Lampoon was handed the sacred object by a CRIMSON editor who felt like those other CRIMSON men when they lent Lampy the punchbowl. Unfortunately this funniest of the funnymen let the Ibis slip through his fingers and arrived once more in Cambridge with nothing but an old towel receptacle in place of his beloved Ibis. And now once more the Ibis has come to life and posed for photographers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Sends Lampy a Goose; Other Admirers Donate Piano, Persian Rug, and Hawaiian Band | 3/18/1937 | See Source »

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