Word: sanctums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took over as business manager of the funny magazine when it was laboring under heavy arrears of debt, and in two years transformed it into a paying proposition. Out of his own funds he bought the first editors' "Sanctum," a dwelling which formerly stood on Mt. Auburn Street between Dunster and Holyoke Streets, next to what is now a parking...
High up in Chicago's Tribune Tower, the door to Colonel Robert R. McCormick's sanctum flew open. Out strode the colonel's niece, 30-year-old Ruth McCormick Miller, editor of his Washington Times-Herald. Mad as a wet hen, she took the elevator to the lobby, hustled off to her suite in the Ambassador East Hotel. There Newshen "Bazy" confirmed a fast-spreading rumor: she had just had a "heated showdown-not loud but emphatic"-with Bertie McCormick. Furthermore, she was all washed up as boss of the Times-Herald...
Next day she learned how doggedly the Lampoon persists in its career of humor. The "Fabian Fall" bronze had disappeared from the sanctum of the Lampoon's ancient rival, Harvard's daily Crimson. It was, in fact, a bust of a former Crimson president who died in office in 1909. At week's end, it was back in the Crimson's sanctum...
Crimson Business Manager William S. Holbrook III, announced last night that the organization would bill MGM for all expenses incurred in tracking down the bust. The statue had been placed in a niche in the Crimson "Sanctum" as a memorial for Fall, who was President of the daily...
...said the Daily Express, "as though the Brooklyn Dodgers had invaded Lord's," the sanctum of Britain's sacred game of cricket...