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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...buildings on 1,2164 acres-on which there are 62 miles of roads and paths, 10,000 trees, one good-sized lake and a lagoon, 2,000,000 shrubs and plants. Fifty-eight nations, two international organizations, 33 States, 76 concessionaires and 1,354 exhibitors are represented. To see the entire fair (including concessions) will cost $15 in admissions and will take even an iron man three full days (to nourish iron men there are 310 eating places...
Last week the fair grounds were pandemonium, with trucks snorting up to every building and 25,000 workers adding final touches, while a flood of concessionaires including some Seminole Indians stood around ogling (see cut, p. 72). President Whalen boasts, however, that opening day will find the fair about 99% completed. Farthest from completion is the huge amusement section, but even there some 65 separate diversions are ready. One thing World's Fair veterans may find lacking is sex. Despite announced appearances of such numbers as Delia ("Rose Dance") Carroll, who once lifted Adolf Hitler's brows several...
...Rose Hill, Va., Mr. & Mrs. Steve Pace have lived to see their 16th child married. Last week the Paces, nearing their 74th birthdays, announced the imminent birth of child...
Certainly neither you nor I, nor any other self-respecting Harvard student would be happy to see our faculty modeling its lectures after the pattern of the tutoring school's effective evening "cream," yet such would be the result if the remarks in your editorial were to be followed out logically. No, I hardly think that an outstanding faculty like that of our University could be interested in merely training people to answer certain specific questions culled from examinations of the past...
...difficult, however, to see how the University will be able to hold students to next year's room contracts signed before the meal rate rise. Approximately half of this year's Freshman class are on some sort of scholarship or doing some sort of work toward room and board. On the ten and fourteen meal contracts the new rates are more than double outside restaurants, and on the twenty one meal contracts they are still exorbitantly high. It may well be doubted if the dining halls are being run on a reasonable basis from the students' point of view. Cleveland...