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Peddlers & Patriarchs. East Siders would not have wondered. For nearly 60 years the Alliance has been more than a family to thousands who live south of Union Square between the East River and the Bowery. The squat, six-story building, once a skyscraper among tight-packed tenements, has been a bridge Between European ghettos and the bright promise of American citizenship...
...rest, and bounding with energy, he belted Princeton's all-American nominee Brad Glass out of almost every play last week. A one hundred and eighty two pounder, the rugged and agile Polich is probably the smartest lineman on the team. Charley Coudert, the other offensive guard, is a squat 209 pounds, and doesn't move so well as Polich. Coudert, a senior who played jayvee ball as a sophomore, second string as a junior, is the most improved lineman...
...Busch-Reisinger Museum is brick-and-mortar proof that even the hatreds of war cannot break the cultural bonds between America and Germany. For forty years, the squat, white building whose tower catches the shadow from Memorial Hall has been the center of Germanism at the University. As such, it has been the target of the distrust and suspicion accompanying two wars and their aftermath's. But war feelings have never hindered the steady accretion of art objects that has made the Museum a world famous storehouse of reproductions and home of the finest collection of German paintings outside Germany...
...Force last week gave Lockheed Aircraft Corp. a contract to turn out a turboprop cargo assault transport "in quantity," the first such U.S. production contract. Powered by four Allison engines, the squat, bulbous C-130 is designed for quick shuttling of tactical weapons in airborne assaults, has a ramp for hustling trucks and howitzers aboard and a rear opening for air drops. Retooling for production of the C-130 will start shortly at Lockheed's big Marietta, Ga. plant...
...member of my Class of 1900. he was also my table mate; for a year we ate mutton together at Table 6 in Memorial Hall. Among other 1900 men at the Table was Ralph Kent, of Concord, New Hampshire, who was as long as Rinehart was squat. They roamed the Yard together, a sort of Harvard "Mutt and Jeff...