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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pessimists who were wondering whether the notorious Griswold had an equal at Springfield, Poughkeepsie, or in any of the other places reported as the site for this year's race, may now rest assured that the only thing different about the 1941 festivities is that they occur a week earlier...
With the definite selection of the orchestra arranged by Edward H. Mahoney '44, band committee chief, plans for the weekend here have begun to take concrete shape. The Union will be the Jubilee's site and music will continue from 10 to 3 o'clock. During the five hours of dancing, a hot midnight supper will be served and several novelties...
...They were to "design a theatre providing all the facilities necessary for dramatic productions, operas, symphony concerts, dance recitals, pageants, lectures, and motion pictures." The Theatre Auditorium must seat 800 spectators, provide accomodations for an orchestra of 40 musicians, and hold a stage 70 to 75 feet wide. The site selected "is the vacant land in Soldiers Field, bounded by the Harvard Business School, Western Avenue, and the Metropolitan Parkway (along the Charles River...
With trouble in Libya, trouble at home, and big trouble in the Balkans, Great Britain last week was afraid that she had trouble in Paradise as well. By week's end this month's uprising in Iraq, traditional site of the Garden of Eden, showed no signs of normal simmering down, seemed instead a nasty threat to the carotid artery of the British Empire, the Mosul-Haifa oil pipeline...
Around the time of the Civil War, Nevada's Virginia City, site of the fabulous Comstock Lode, was the wildest, hell-roaringest mining town in the world. Men who arrived haggard, filthy and penniless soon made thousands of dollars a week from the blue-black silver ore, gorged themselves on oysters, caviar, champagne. The streets thundered all night with brawling, boozing, wenching. Sam Brown, one of the first "bad men" of the old West, literally carved a man to pieces with his bowie knife, went to sleep on a table while his awed companions collected and removed the fragments...