Word: vols
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fricker now spends his time thinking up exotic German dishes for his Stillman patients. Dumb waiters in the Holyoke Center now carry such delicacies as Rahm schnitzel, Beef Stroganoff, Wlenerschnitzel, vol au vent and falsan aux asperges to hungry patients. Fricker also cooks for Holyoke's tenth floor dining rooms...
...National Observer is to be a newspaper, it is going to have to act like one. A newspaper generally puts its most important, most newsworthy story in the upper right hand corner of page one. In Vol. 1. No. 1, the story in this position is a rather untimely discussion of police scandals in American cities that begins, "It was just about two years ago, in January 1960, that Chicago, a city not easily shocked, got a jolt that shook it thoroughly." The story is actually interesting and informative, but it hardly rates being treated as the feature attraction...
Although billed as a Sunday paper, the Observer bore little resemblance to the laminated bundle of news, features, supplements and comics that characterize the rest of the Sunday press. Vol. I, No. 1 of the Observer was a single section of 32 pages-half of it ads. Of six Page One stories, four datelessly treated trends or events long since dissected by other newspapers, e.g., a lengthy article on police corruption that reprised a Chicago police department scandal (1960) and a similar dustup in Denver...
...Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. III, edited by Leonard W. Labaree. Among other prizes, this volume contains Franklin's Verses on the Virginia Capitol Fire, a witty parody of the fulsome prose of an 18th century Governor prying more money out of his legislature...
...Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. Ill, edited by Leonard W. Labaree. The collected clutter of this astonishing man may occupy 40 volumes, but this one obviously is a prize; it contains his most important studies on electricity and Verses on the Virginia Capitol Fire, a witty parody on the fulsome prose of an 18th century Governor prying more money out of his legislature...