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...then bustled next door to light another in the annex. By the time he was ready to leave the annex, the 15-year-old main building, where he had started the first fire, was doomed. Flames, apparently spread by an explosion in the kitchen range, licked over the varnished woodwork and blocked the hallways...
Sanders' deficiencies can, nevertheless, easily be explained. It wasn't meant to be a theater in the first place. It was intended for concerts and forums, and, through the years, the University has obviously kept this consideration in mind. Rulings prevent nails from being driven into the woodwork, because they might disfigure the stage for its paramount functions as a concert or lecture platform. Scenery has had to be hauled on and off stage for each performance or rehearsal; there are no dressing rooms or places where stage crews can build scenery...
...black-market set, having blown its tainted bankroll, had crawled back into the woodwork, leaving room for the merely wealthy. The total number of tourists this season was estimated at about 2,000,000 -down 1,000,000 from last winter and about equal to the 1940-41 season. The Miami News Bureau said that spending was 10 to 15% off the alltime high...
Moors Hall, the gift of Boston broker John F. Moors '83, will feature such innovations as smoking rooms with connecting kitchenettes and space-hoarding dressers and bookcases sunk in the woodwork...
...Hitler, Japanese, and Franco agents. And the press of Boston has reached a pretty low point when it headlines such people's insane accusations. I have my differences with Henry Wallace, but I will cheerfully forget them whenever such slimy characters as Mr. Steele creep out of the woodwork and start screaming "un-American," at one of the finest Americans of the present day. Allen H. Barton Chairman, HLU Summer Exec Leverett...