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...other afternoon, a typical group perched atop "Critics' Roost," the three-tier bench at the side of the field. Besides Mr. Bolles, Dean Bender and assorted Boston sports writers, the "regulars," stringers from the Post, the Globe, the Associated Press, the New York Herald Tribune, the Alumni Bulletin and the Breakfast Table Daily, were present...
Lampy's Ibis has finally come home to roost, and after much consultation with the Jester, the Blot, and the Narthex, has come out with his annual list of the year's ten worst motion pictures...
...soloists more than top bands. With rare exceptions, the theaters that used to pay Goodman and Shaw $10,000 a week are gone. Recording companies nowadays play for the hit song, the one-shot success; the disk jockey, who can make or break a record, rules the roost...
...over Washington darkened as the most worrisome problems of U.S. rearmament and inflation flew flapping home to roost. Both the C.I.O. steelworkers and the major U.S. steel plants washed their hands of all responsibility for a strike that was set for New Year's Day. After futile attempts to bring them together, Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching conceded defeat and admitted: "It is the biggest domestic crisis we have or could have...
Cricket at Dartmouth. Here is the surrender of the British at Yorktown, here a glimpse of covered wagons heading West, a brassy photo of Dodge City's Main Street in the 1870s. A picture of a squalid "Bandit's Roost" in the New York of the 1880s turns up close to a sedate shot of Fifth Avenue lined with fashionable carriages. Among Davidson's other exhibits: Dartmouth students playing cricket in 1793, women prospectors on their way to the Klondike, Coney Island in the 1890s, child labor in a Virginia glass factory...