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...mother was hospitalized at Roosevelt eleven months ago, Ethel was first a patients' escort, then joined the gift shop. Now she comes in at least once a week-her other engagements, such as a concert tour with Carroll O'Connor permitting. "She's a great wrapper," says the shop's manager. Belts Ethel: "I'm lousy at corners." Then Nonsmoker Merman confessed her only vice: an innocuous form of sniffing. At the cupboard where the cigarette cartons are stored, she inhaled happily. "It smells just like a Dunhill humidor," she said...
...1870s did not go easily. Even though the editors of The Advocate extended their editorial goodwill to the new paper, the community at large seemed unenthusiastic. The first issue promised a home delivery system for subscribers; the second retracted the offer because of lack of interest. The wrapper of advertising stayed at four pages until the Fall of 1875--two years without an increase. Also in 1875, in concert with The Advocate, The Magenta cancelled its policy of credit to subscribers. "We have been in existence now for three and a half years, and during that time we have lost...
...Magenta, (named after the College color, it underwent a change in nomenclature in December 1875, when the College went crimson) at first could not be recognized as what we would call a newspaper today. It appeared biweekly, a thin layer of editorial content surrounded by an even thinner wrapper of advertising. To many, it must have seemed superflous: The Advocate already fulfilled the College's need for reading matter. Why bring out yet another publication...
HARVARD--EPWORTH CHUCH. Papillae by Benjamin Hayeem, Inflation by Hans Richter, Allegretto by Oskar Fishinger, Cat's Cradle by Stan Brakhage, Mr. Hayashl and All My Life by Bruce Baillie, Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper by David Rimmer, Yantra by James Whitney, Off-on by Scott Bartlett, Xfilm by John Schofill, and Our Trip to Africa by Peter Kubelka, tonight...
ANYONE who happened to overhear random conversations around the Price Commission last week probably decided that its next report will have to be issued in a plain brown wrapper. The commission's economists were talking about a plan with the multi-entendre name of "re-virgination." At first glance re-virgination would seem to promise a return to a state for which there is little nostalgia. The idea is that, at the commission's urging, corporations would roll back many of their recent price increases and make refunds to customers who had been forced to pay them. That...