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...Hollywood standards it was a minor production (the Inaugural Committee reckoned the cost at just under $1,000,000), but it had drama, comedy and pageantry that Hollywood could not touch. Critics might find faults in it-the parade was miles too long, the balls were a crashing bore, and there were a few embarrassing performers-but the faults only underlined the fact that this was a great and wonderful rite...
...week's end, Eisenhower said farewell to Columbia University. On Sunday afternoon, the Pennsylvania Railroad's Business Car No. 90, the same car that in 1945 carried Ike on his return home from his World War II European command, bore him, Mamie and family toward Washington, D.C., and the helm of state...
Even after the Houses were built, the Crime still bore malice to the system. The CRIMSON castigated both the sublimity of Lowell high tables, which it labelled "aristocratic tendencies" and the ridiculousness of the rabbit coat-of-arms used on the wrong side of the Plympton tracks...
...Wall Street, the new feeling of confidence boosted the Dow-Jones industrial average to a 22-year high of 289.65, and by year's end traders cheerfully predicted the average might break 300 (1929's high: 381.17). If this bore surface traces of 1929-8 bubbly nonsense, the underlying facts did not. To many, the stock market still seemed the only uninflated segment of economy. Chicago's Colonel Henry Crown, who had bought Manhattan's Empire State Building, said: "You can buy stocks more cheaply than you can buy the buildings they represent." Many companies listed...
...lead at 3:15 on a weird goal by Hubbard. Kelley had seemingly saved the right-alley drive, but then kicked the puck in. The Crimson held on until defenseman Jeff Coolidge went off for elbowing at 15:39. Half a minute later, star Terrier forward Dick Rodenniser bore in all alone from the right and slammed the disk past Richardson...