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...sunset everything was ready. Some 200 Moslem Boy Scouts gathered in a schoolyard, ready to be issued their torches: tin cans stuffed with oil-soaked sawdust and mounted on poles. In their midst appeared a burly, bearded nationalist name Taha al Waly, a follower of the fanatic ex-Mufti of Jerusalem. He proposed that the paraders detour under the windows of President Camille Chamoun, a Christian...
...customs of the nineteenth century have survived: an open tobacco tin and an upstairs "lounge." At Leavitt's these are revered traditions, to be distinguished from its more modern day practices of posting University athletic notices and supplying free train schedules for over fifty railroads...
When Frederick Leavitt and Wallace Peirce opened their shop at what is now 1316 Massachusetts Avenue, they left an open tin of tobacco scraps on the counter beside the stove. Up the street, where Bob Slate's Stationery Store now stands, they operated a smaller shop under similar arrangements for freshmen. The proprietors tried different mixtures until they found one undergraduates particularly enjoyed. This was packed up in cake box tins for Leavitt and Peirce customers to take home. Later it was shipped to graduates, who passed it among their friends, establishing the brand abroad. Soon Leavitt's found itself...
Last week, in her East Side apartment, 50-year-old Libby Holman, no tragic figure, was happily immersed in her "theater piece." Why did she change to ballads? "The songs are much richer and deeper than smarty-pants Tin Pan Alley." The mixed critical opinion? "I never read the hatchetmen. You can't change what you're doing just because some people don't like it." From Broadway Libby will take Blues on a brief East Coast tour, then perhaps to India and Japan. "No retiring to a chicken farm for me," she says...
...starring Ray Forrest. Big Top and Super Circus supply acrobats and trapeze acts; some of the Saturday morning shows include education films dealing with the home life of otters and salmon. The CBS dog show Lassie is soon to get a canine rival in ABC's filmed Rin Tin Tin. ABC's Kukla, Fran & Ollie is seen every weekday, but its gentle humor probably has a larger audience among grownups than kids...