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City Councilman Michael A. ("Mickey the Dude") Sullivan reentered Harvard's political arena last Saturday night when in his capacity as a local truckman he exported a symbolical load of sand, a large horse-shoe floral wreath, three canaries and six pigeons from the Independents, conservative political group to a dance in the Hotel Statler given by the Affiliated Jewish Youth Organization to raise money to send Jewish refugees to Palestine...
...Paris ever had a thinner time than Herr Ribbentrop. There was no public acclamation for him. The police scarcely let his top hat come into public view. So numerous were the guards around the Arc de Triomphe when Herr Ribbentrop, wearing the German Iron Cross, laid a swastika-decorated wreath at the tomb of France's Unknown Soldier, that few saw this unprecedented ceremony...
Instead, those Britons who believe that Neville Chamberlain kept them out of war in September honored the Prime Minister with an unprecedented patter of hand-claps as he placed a poppy wreath at the base of the memorial...
Harvard will remember the 300th anniversary of the death of its name-sake today at noon, when President Conant, Jerome D. Green '96, Secretary to the Corporation, and Samuel Eliot Morison '08, official historian of the University, visit the old Charleston burying ground and lay a wreath on the monument of John Harvard...
...managed St. Josephs for 25 years as Mother Superior of the local Dominican community. It was the 50th anniversary of Mother Polycarpa's profession as a nun. So throughout the day, as Dominicans do on their jubilees, she wore what Dominicans call a "golden crown"-actually a wreath of gilt flowers, hers for keeps...