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...Manhattan's clangorous Sixth Avenue, a block away from verdant Central Park, stands the garlic-scented Chambers Restaurant and Delicatessen. On one side of the establishment is a bar, on the other a counter piled high with salami, liverwurst and jars of borsch. There, greying...
Clean Blotters. O'Grady likes to think of Belmont Park, with its 453 verdant acres, as a prosperous city-and of himself as the police commissioner. Says he: "No city of 20,000 has a police blotter with so few entries...
...gradually, verdant patches began to mar the white blanket of snow, and the Waban's waters became more suitable for swimming than skating. Last night, Carnival eve, the facts had to be faced: the Weather Man had given Wellesley lovelies the warm shoulder...
...time since 1900. With the canals absorbing some 60% of the country's freight traffic, hard-pressed Dutch railroads were breathing easy. In Italy, where the fragrant mimosa had flowered in December, thanks to the mildest winter of the century, cattle and sheep were grazing hoof-deep in verdant pastureland while farmers sent their plows deep into soft, moist earth. "Now that the sun is reaching again into the dark corners of the valley," sighed a pensive, copper-haired peasant woman of Anticoli last week, "we have no fear...
Perhaps not so difficult, however, for a former editor who has been officially in and about the Yard for the greater part of those thirty years. His memories after all should be verdant with new annual growth. First, let us look at the modern counterpart of the old 1918 student. Today's undergraduate is a more mature, a better poised, and a must better informed person. No middle-aged academic official would take issue in that point. And it is a basic factor in the present trends of college journalism...