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...poll reported that the average scholar in the class of 1940 had attended three Boston burlesque performances (including one midnight show). The questionnaire also found some twenty-odd men who had been present for more than a dozen exposures. One member of the class was employed there as an usher for six months during his final term at Harvard. And a few years ago the Old Howard even appeared in a Geography 1 midyear exam question--the correct answer being to note the theatre's ideal location midway between Harvard Square and Charlestown Navy Yard. But that strategic site...
...Faculty advisors are:Edward H. Chamberlin, professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department of Economics, John H. Williams, Nathaniel Ropes professor of political Economy and Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, Seymour E. Harris, associate professor of Economics, Edward S. Mason, professor of Economics, Abbott P. Usher, professor of Economics. Also Melvin T. Copeland, professor of Marketing and Olyde of O. Ruggles, professor of Public Utility Management of the Business School; and Russell A. Nixon and John D. William, instructors in Economics...
Freshmen are urged to apply for jobs as either ticket takers or ushers because the experience acquired in working as an usher during all four years at college makes for the most efficient handling of Stadium spectators...
Pistol In Miami's Negro section, Theatre Usher Jack Woodberry was hauled into court for shooting at a pickaninny. His explanation: only a pistol loaded with blanks would scare off youthful gate crash ers. Sentence suspended...
...matters worse, the Commissar manages to sneak in on Lorna's wave length and clutter up the air with Advance Front propaganda. Betimes Lorna squeezes in a few words, but presently one of the Commissar's agents, who has been lurking in the studio doubling as an usher, grabs her and backs out of the studio with Lorna at the point of a gun. Promptly a city-wide search is begun during which Lorna reveals her presence in a flower shop by blinking out a bit of code with the florist's neon lights. Finally released...