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...been the nation's second largest retailer of top-priced women's wear, topped only by Manhattan's Saks Fifth Avenue. Magnin's is still the largest buyer in the high-priced wholesale dress market (Saks makes much of its fine apparel in its own workshop) and has long had exclusive West Coast rights to that market's haut monde...
Shortly before dawn the battalion commander, burly Lieut. Colonel John Toffey, stopped his men at an abandoned farmhouse and set up his command post there. The medics took over the crude workshop, and began unpacking packages and plasma bottles in the dark. The Colonel ordered most of the men into the long, smelly stable for safety, but sat himself down at the rear of the building with a portable radio...
Besides the regular record sustainers, Radio Radcliffe broadcasts interviews, drama, and special features. Conductor Arthur Fielder, pianist Boris Godolvsky, Professor Robert Hillyer, Associate Professor Theodore Spencer, and poet Delmore Schwartz are among the celebrities who have been interviewed. Harvard-Radcliffe Radio Workshop plays, presented occasionally at Harvard, are heard via a two-way private telephone wire between the field house studios and the Crimson Network. The telephone wire is used for exchange broadcasts going in the other direction...
...Christmas. He spent much of his time in his garden workshop. He made toy battleships and airplanes, repaired Joyce's doll house. Otherwise, toys being so scarce and costly, the children might have had no new ones for Christmas. He visited the school to see how his kids were making out; the teacher made him tell an assembly about "life in the desert." On his last night the family had a feast of roast lamb, boiled potatoes, cabbage, Queen's pudding-a spongy affair with...
Amateur telescope-makers are so notoriously single-track that their wives call themselves "glass widows." One wife, out of pique, once locked her husband in his cellar workshop; another sued for divorce and won. Editor Albert Ingalls last week proudly called off some of his pet names: D. T. Broadhead (alias "Jim Fogarty") of Wellsville, N.Y.; William Buchel (alias "Robert Gray") of Toledo; Paul Linde (alias "Pavel Uvaroff") and Fred Person (alias "Alex MacTavish") of Biloxi, Miss. Said Ingalls solemnly: "A good roof-prism maker is the equal in military value of a whole company of soldiers...