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...Riviera town of Antibes, had long been used as a museum, but hardly anyone bothered now to look at its ancient coins, copies of Michelangelo and terra-cotta statuettes. For Pablo Picasso had hung his latest paintings in its tiled galleries. The regular habitues were bustled aside by a throng of up-to-the-minute pilgrims, who had come to see for themselves the newest chapter in the protean history of Picasso...
...took a special detachment of cops to get Taft and his wife through this milling throng and he was booed lustily during the momentary confusion which resulted. Taft announced-and probably correctly-that such picketing was helping his cause immensely...
...first of a throng of Western Maryland boosters that hotel-owners estimated would reach 55 by game-time this afternoon. In preparation for the season's inaugural, Hub hotels announced that they would not remove furniture and breakables from their lobbies...
Frederick C. Packard '20, associate professor of Public Speaking, it seems, was only momentarily nonplussed by the throng of more than two score Harvard and Radcliffe representatives that crowded his Germanic Museum studio yesterday for the first meeting of his course in Dramatic Interpretation...
Both Durant and Heaman asserted that students currently throng the Union a few minutes before nine o'clock and at noon, thus causing congestion. Durant said, however, that practically the same number of students that was served last year is again being handled by the Union staff...