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Britain. British hotels also had a better year than last. With sterling cheap, tourist traffic was up 20,000 for the season, excluding the heavy week-end trade from normally stay-at-home gold-bloc countries like France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland. Visiting U. S. tourists remained twice as long as in previous years. Despite rate reductions to accommodate dollar travelers, the Savoy in London took in 35% more from room rent than...
Members of the Maintenance Department were hard at work for several days last week putting up a new gate across the drive-way leading into Kirkland and Eliot House. The work involved placing four six-inch pipes in cement foundations and connecting these pipes with heavy chains. The new creation was pronounced sufficient to keep out all traffic likely to invade the premises over the Army Game week-end...
...playing in The Ace, she had been enough of a success to start two fashion fads: red hair ribbons and black silk stockings. Previously she had been a chanteuse in French cafés, had made French shorts. While in The Ace, she used to fly to Paris every week-end to see the races at Longchamps. Her first Hollywood contract contained a clause making it compulsory for her to speak perfect English in 100 days. Before the time expired, studio officials made her stop using slang, which she learned from Maurice Chevalier. Ignoring the current vogue for inaccessibility...
...Phillips Endecott Osgood of Emanuel Church and Rev. Dr. Arthur Lee ("Little Tui") Kinsolving of Trinity Church announced a Thursday afternoon "Snow Train Service," to begin this week. Rectors of Boston's two largest Episcopal churches, they wish to bring back to church that "large and significant element in the modern community" who are kept away from Sunday worship by "the automobile and the suburban out-of-door week-end." Rectors Osgood and Kinsolving will participate jointly in the "Snow Train Service," so named after the special train on which Bostonians travel to winter weekends in Vermont...
...Freshmen will top off the Army game week-end with their biggest social event until the Jubilee when they hold a tea dance in the Union on Saturday. Ruby Newman's ten-piece orchestra will play and refreshments will be served. Dancing will be from 5 to 7.30 o'clock...