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Tomorrow night a College newspaper will fold up, as it has every spring since 1951, and as it did in the only year of its existence before that, 1940. Early or late Sunday morning, depending on when he sets up, every freshman living in the Yard will find the seventeenth issue of the mimeographed Yardling has been tossed at his door the night before. But for the rest of the year '58 will have to depend on extra-Yard sources for news, because the freshman newspaper's five-man board of editors, bowing to final exams, lack of personnel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Newspaper Will Undergo 5th Annual Spring Death Tomorrow | 4/29/1955 | See Source »

...serving French pastry and said goodbye to the waiter, the dishwasher, the cold chef, the hot chef, and the just plain chefs. I paid my check, $1.50, with one dessert, and told my hostess I'd be back on May 17 when the patio would be open. The seventeenth is of course, Norwegian Independence...

Author: By The Walsus, | Title: All You Can Eat | 3/24/1955 | See Source »

...library's oldest manuscripts date from before 1500, while others include first editions of Thomas Wolfe, Herman Melville, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Houghton's theatre collection is one of its most unusual attractions--even holding the answer to "whether Macbeth should be played in quilts." A rare series of seventeenth century American almanacs, precursors to Poor Richard, are especially valuable and amusing. Among the wise saying are the following: 'All men like money; some their wives," and "He that marries for love has good nights but sorry days." The world's largest series of books and manuscripts by John Kcats...

Author: By John Sanders, | Title: Valuable Vault | 2/9/1955 | See Source »

...proposed new press law have been reported in the country. When the New York Times's international edition carried a full story on the latest attempt to control Spain's press, the Times announced last week, it was banned from the country for the seventeenth time this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Grand Inquisitor | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

Despite a suggestive title and a penny-dreadful type of introduction, promising a shocking glimpse of marital infidelity, the movie is still much closer to Victor Hugo's original Ruy Blas than to a Mickey Spillane epic. For one thing, the characters are far more interested in the seventeenth century ideal of glory than in the "passion" currently popular in drugstore circles. Alto, most of them are too busy intriguing against each other to get worked up over a love affair--even if it does involve the Queen of Spain...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: The Queen's Lover | 12/10/1954 | See Source »

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