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...teapots at Wellesley were laid end to end, the results would stagger anyone observing the Waban Wonderland...
...gambling spirit may be kept alive in the evening by another trip to Revere, this time to Wonderland, the greyhound track. But all the aging greyhounds look alike, and the rabbit wins every race, so Boston Dog racing is only a little more refined than a crap game.Almost anyone can come to a crew race. Pictured above are three Boston University students and a friend from Tufts mingling with the Harvards. At this Juncture In the Cambridge regatta the boats were abreast of these spectator. The pin stripe suit on the boy in the left foreground is typical...
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...Alice in Wonderland. The Post's charges were duplicated in London's more flamboyant papers, always alert for a sensation. In a front-page article, the tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 4,500,000) flatly charged that "the world is not getting the truth" about the war. The reason, wrote Mirror Correspondent Davis Walker, a veteran World War II reporter, was due to the "dreadfully distorted" news coming from "Alice-in-Wonderland information handed out at high level...
Though the show looked like entertainment to NBC, its sponsors and its audience, Walt Disney stoutly insisted that it was only "exploitation" for his forthcoming Alice in Wonderland movie. Perhaps to soothe his TV-frightened movie distributors, Disney professed to see no television future for his great backlog of cartoon films. Said he: "I think the movies are still my natural habitat. The detail we put in our pictures, you just can't get out on TV. I propose to use the medium only to enhance theatrical revenues...