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Councillors Alfred E. Vellucci and Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 both said they had received long-distance calls from Rodney W. Long '22 shortly before the council meeting, and said that the local realtor expected that he would be back in time for the May 25 meeting. Vellucci said two weeks ago that Long had enlisted his aid in promoting the project...
...with porcupine-quill embroidery and the original "Deadwood Stage" built in Concord, N.H. in 1840 to works by such master painters of the West as George Catlin, Albert Bierstadt and Alfred Jacob Miller, plus the entire studio collection of Frederic Remington, the greatest of Western painters, donated by the W. R. Coe Foundation along with a $500,000 trust fund to help maintain the new gallery...
...family that can afford to buy a second car can have a swimming pool in its backyard. Pools are just a logical extension of the family television room." So, last week, said Gordon W. Rudd, president of National Pool Equipment Co., one of the nation's leading poolmakers (1958 sales: $3,001,778). Once a rich man's whim (there were only 28,300 pools, including commercial ones, five years ago), swimming pools today make up one of the splashiest sectors of the nation's leisure market. This year alone, of the 70,000 swimming pools...
...pool is still prized as a status symbol. But as prices, which vary with trimmings and construction difficulties, dip below the $3,500 level, families see the backyard swimming pool simply as a new way for family fun and a sure way to increase property values. Explains C. W. Dearborn, assistant vice president of the California Bank of Los Angeles: "Last year people kept telling me, 'This is the year we normally buy a new car, but they cost too much and they depreciate too fast, so we decided to buy a pool instead.' " Like most banks, Dearborn...
Prizes were announced recently for works exhibited in a show of undergraduate art at Leverett House. First prize for painting, including an award of $100, was given to W. Dugal Thomas...