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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firemen noted that "furniture, clothing, flooring, and door-casing" were destroyed. One of the men remarked that "if it had not been for the sprinkler going off, probably the whole building would have gone." As usual, an entire engine company, consisting of three engines and two ladder trucks, was sent...
President and Mrs. Pusey will be at home at 17 Quincy Street as usual on the first Sunday of the month, March third, from four to six o'clock, and will be happy to welcome members of the faculties, and others holding Corporation appointments, and their wives or husbands...
...like any children's book you have ever read, that may be because it isn't a children's book. It is an adult's biography of a cat who became her pet and then her friend. May Sarton knows how to tell an adult about a cat. The usual hurdles of condescension and over-indulgence cause her no trouble. And she conspicuously avoids the Walt Disney custom of fastening human personalities onto animals. And that, in fact, is what the book is about...
When the opera is on a light track it is appealing, and although there are only occasional moments when the more serious emotions communicate, the lack of pretention both in the work itself and in the production make A Tree on the Plains a welcome relief from the usual round of Gilbert and Sullivan. Let's hope for equal imagination in the programs of some of the other local music groups...
This afternoon from 1 to 5 p.m., visitors may view the displays at Longfellow House, 105 Brattle Street, without payment of the usual admission charges...