Word: buenavista
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some years ago, according to La Razon's sardonic columnist, "Buenavista," a boy and girl had a 7 p.m. date. Because they followed the time of different broadcasting stations, they failed to meet. When the girl failed to show up, the boy went home, at 7:40 (his time) blew out his brains. Brokenhearted because her lover had not appeared, the girl went to her own home, took poison, died at 7:45 (her time). Both actually died at the same moment, and just as the Congress clock was chiming...
...upon a handsome gift: a clock, not nearly so big as Big Ben, but big enough to bang out the hours in deep and dependable tones. Topping a 33-ft. granite tower, the $10,000 clock will stand smack in the middle of 2-mi.-high La Paz.* Cracked Buenavista: "What is the use of having a British clock if the man who sets it is a Bolivian? Let us by all means have a Britisher, or at any rate someone not a Bolivian...
...Graduate School of Business Administration James L. Rollins has been appointed Assistant Dean. He received his A. B. degree from Buenavista College, Ia., in 1926 and for two years did special graduate work at Northwestern University. He also served there as Assistant Dean of Men until 1936. At that time he was named Director of Dormitories and Member of the Board of Personnel Administration. From 1939 until 1942 he acted us director of dining halls and dormitories. At Harvard he will be in charge of the physical plant at the Business School...