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Looking further down on the list, one realizes that when the Band played "Brush Your Teeth With Colgate" last fall, it was not only ridiculing the opposition but also advertising a company in which the University owned shares worth $1,377,000. And these in the stands who were simultaneously swigging from bottles of Hiram Walker were patronizing a firm in which Harvard's holdings equalled...
There are three of these cleaning trucks that dutifully swep the one hundred and thirty-five miles of Cambridge street. They are triangular, orange colored machines costing about eight thousand dollars each, with a single rear wheel for steering. Two large steel brushes whirling on the sides root the dirt out of the gutter while a large rear brush flips in into a conveyor belt that carries the mess into a big hopper. The trucks look pretty ungainly and make plenty of noise, but actually they are quite graceful. The secret is in the rear wheel steering that allows them...
...religious films ever give their saints and martyrs more than a light brush-off in technicolor and extravagance. Monsieur Vincent, a French film produced in 1948, is a notable exception. With the subtle acting of Pierre Fresnay and the excellent photography of Claude Renoir, the film pictures the life of Saint Vincent de Paul simply and movingly...
...show near Paris, France's Defense Minister Rene Pleven and Britain's Minister of Supply Duncan Sandys, a son-in-law of Sir Winston Churchill, had a brush with death when a Mystere IV jet fighter plane touched a wingtip to the ground, crashed and exploded before them, killing the pilot and sending flying wreckage over their heads...
Nature has seldom devised a more demanding steeplechase than the Grand National at England's Aintree with its 4½-mile course and 30 jumps over brush, fence, rail and water, including famed, treacherous Becher's Brook. Last week a crowd of 250,000, including a big contingent of Irishmen and a flock of hopeful holders of Irish Hospital Sweepstakes tickets, turned out to watch the 108th running of the Grand National and shudder at the spills. The footing was soggy and spills came early: three horses went down at the first jump, two at the second. Only...