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...woman running a spa in the negro section who prefers anonymity says, "I never did approve of Plan E. Don't think a city managed by a city manager is any good. Do you mean to tell me people backed by CCI up there should stay in? I'd like to vote for nine men under plurality...

Author: By William M. Beecher, | Title: Cambridge Faces Return to Political Dark Ages | 10/29/1953 | See Source »

...running-horse market in 1917, when it signed an agreement with most of the nation's leading breeders giving it sole rights to sell their horses. In return, Fasig-Tipton built stalls, sales paddocks and other installations at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., thereby making the yearling sales at the spa the most famed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Horse Traders | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...after a few moments, an elderly woman spectator entered the Harvard Spa, opposite Lamont Liberary, purchased some tomatoes, and hurled them at the sound truck. A crowd congregated and overflowed into Massachusetts Avenue, stalling traffic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Throng Stops Dever Truck | 10/24/1952 | See Source »

Reactions from newsstand and spa owners in the Square were varied. One storekeeper's comment on girlie magazines and other quasi-erotica was, "I feel bashful just handling them. We try and carry as few of those things as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Police Start New Campaign Against Sexy News Stand Wares | 11/10/1951 | See Source »

...best, crowed with delight. Bragged the Daily Mirror: "Turpin became world champion without any of the hokum that Americans have used to bedazzle and bamboozle their opponents before the fight." London's anti-American, middlebrow New Statesman and Nation felt a primitive thrill: "The local boy from Leamington Spa became the giant-killer and we all felt bigger and better in consequence . . . Europe had risen from the gutter and thrashed the Prince of the Dollar Empire ... Morale rises ... Even the Government becomes our Government and can be sure of re-election on such a morning after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sugar's Lumps | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

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