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Room accommodations will be supplied for 200 Harvard dates at a charge of $2.50 per girl, while their escorts will be distributed in the college gratis. Requests should be sent to Robin F. Worthington '47, and Edward L. Liva '47, both of Lowell House. The first 200 sending stamped self...
A few days later Reporter Basque returned. He strode to Room 205, announced himself loudly as the Information Ministry's new Director of Broadcasts. "Bien, bien!-Fine, fine!" nervous bureaucrats exclaimed. They bustled around, tidied up his desk, and put a sign, "Broadcast Control Office," on his door. Program...
While historians speculated, Washington acted. Retiring War Secretary Stimson and Navy Secretary Forrestal wrote a joint letter to President Truman, recalling that President Woodrow Wilson had personally chosen "the World War" as World War I's official name. To Harry Truman they recommended "as a matter of simplicity and...
Chicago had arctic weather on Dec. 9, 1932; when big, red-faced Traffic Police man William D. Lundy went off duty in mid-afternoon it was 11° below zero in the drab Southwest Side. Shivering, he headed for Vera Walush's delicatessen, a cheap speakeasy, and stamped through...
His first mistress, a cabaret singer, he met during a visit to Paris. She lured him to her door and, when Alger hesitated to enter, stamped her foot and snapped: "Don't stand here talking." (Horatio stopped talking.) Mistress No. 2 was an English harpy who abducted him from...