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...mean pulchritude, whom he proceeded to nudge and make growling noises at throughout the first half. Between halves, after she had made the customary trip to that partitioned section under the stadium know to Harvard students of old as "never-never land," she had a short confab with the usher...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Crimson Footwork Wins as Knight Fails to Spur on 'Old Gray Mare' | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

Five years ago Camilla Williams, the daughter of a Virginia chauffeur, was teaching in a Danville Negro school. After she sang at Virginia State College, an alumni group raised a fund to help her continue her music studies. She studied in Philadelphia, working as a movie usher on the side. More help came from the Marian Anderson Award of $750 which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Butterfly | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...questionnaire also showed that some twenty men had been present for over a dozen performances. One man was even an usher at the strip house for six months, and a question mentioning the ideal location of the theatre (halfway between the Charlestown Navy Yard and Harvard Square) was entered on a Geography 1 exam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: O-H, Inexplicable Lure And All, Is Cinch to Draw Throngs of '50 | 9/19/1946 | See Source »

Newspaper consensus agreed that the House had gone too far, that the sudden collapse of controls would usher in a period of violent and costly price fluctuations for hard-pressed consumers. But some placed at least part of the blame on OPA's reluctant retirement back to a free economy and its failure to wipe out inequities and obstacles to production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Kill | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...Central Park, Harry Truman stopped off at City Hall. When an usher told him that the "girls who work in the Mayor's office" would like to see him, the President replied: "I don't know why. I'm just the same as everybody else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Power & Peace | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

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