Word: wall
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Lamont Library is now subscribing to daily newspapers for the first time in many years; copies are kept on racks in the periodical room. The newspapers include the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Post, and the Harvard CRIMSON...
...tiger of the title (Alvin Ailey) is an inarticulate rebel, snarling and moping about the house. Mama pins her faith to a framed telegram, a next-of-kin death notice for another son killed in World War II, that hangs on the bleak wall of her shanty on the outskirts of New Orleans. It is proof that the boy, who she feared would end in jail, died a hero's death instead...
...with the telegraph company are revealed to be thefts from the homes of whites. Moreover, he is a male prostitute catering to the jaded tastes of some of the richer white women in town. He hasn't delivered a telegram for years; the last one is on the wall, a fake he made up as a teenager to give his mother the comforting lie that she craved...
Died. Paul Vincent Shields, 73, founder and senior partner of Wall Street's Shields & Co., financial confidant of Franklin D. Roosevelt, one of the first brokers to recognize and demand a thorough reform of the freewheeling New York Stock Exchange after the 1929 crash; of cancer; in Manhattan. A sailor by avocation, Shields and his business partner-brother Cornelius helped make yachting a mass U.S. sport by popularizing smaller boats with lower costs-6-Meters, Stars, Interclub Dinghies. Last year he paid more than $300,000 to buy and refit the 12-meter Columbia, successful 1958 America...
...economics at Harvard, and taught at both Harvard and Princeton. He was an editorial writer for McGraw-Hill's Business Week when he joined the draft-Ike movement in 1951. After six years with Ike, Hauge was lured away from the White House in 1958 when ubiquitous Wall Streeter Sidney Weinberg. a partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co., persuaded him to become chairman of the finance committee at Manufacturers Trust Co. When Manufacturers merged with the Hanover Bank last year. Hauge became vice chairman, a job in which he was charged mainly with managing the bank's large investment...