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...held in Irving Plaza's faded second-floor dance hall a block from Manhattan's Union Square. On stage were 20 folk singers with guitars, mandolins and harmonicas. In the audience were 1,000 men, women & children (some also with guitars) who sang along with them. Smallest and loudest of them all was curly-haired Woody Guthrie. He sang...
National and world news first began to be brought into the Crimson offices via the teletype in March 1934. It used to be claimed that Harvard's own newspaper had the smallest and cheapest professional news service in the country, thanks to United Press. The first contract, lasting for about two years, ran under the pretentious head, "Salients in the Day's News...
...says. "It had a little feather in place of a tail, and eyes that looked like the china eyes of a doll when its head is broken. . . . Tanguy also designed a little phallic drawing for my cigaret lighter which he had Dunhill engrave. It is the smallest Tanguy in the world...
...good chess player makes the smallest move count. Last week Pope Pius XII chose the seventh anniversary of his coronation to throw a well-timed spotlight on an important new red hat. The hat belongs to soft-voiced, fierce-bearded Gregory Peter XV Agagianian (pronounced ah-gah-jahn-yan), Patriarch-Catholicos of Cilicia of the Armenians, who stayed over in Rome at the Pope's request to celebrate Solemn Pontifical Mass in the Sistine Chapel...
...lamp did some startling tricks. The shadows it cast across a 40-ft. room had sharp, un-fuzzed edges. When the smallest model using only two watts of current was held behind a color film the size of a postage stamp, it projected a clear, sharp "shadow picture" as big as a telephone book. When used in an ordinary photographic enlarger, it made monstrous enlargements of startling clarity...