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...northern hills comes the winter wind, painting the leaf and foliage dun and red, as age brings chrome and artificial scarlet to the cheeks of the decayed beauty. The skies are leaden, every rainy gust sweeps the skeleton branches cleaner, spreading on valley path and craggy niche a Turkey carpet. The airs, acrid with frost and aromatic from the sting of wood-smoke, freeze the new-pressed cider in the half-buried hogshead...
Last year a CRIMSON editorial expressed the popular dissatisfaction with the acoustics of the Memorial Church and pointed out the necessary improvements, of which only a bare minimum has been carried out. Beside the insoluble difficulty of the architecture itself, the original problem was twofold; heavy carpets and rough plaster finish both absorbed sound, prevented resonance, and generally marred the performances of a capable choir. Some of the carpet has now been taken up, but conditions remain so bad that cushionless pews must be resorted to for the Sunday service, and still it is impossible for the choir to realize...
Meantime the bankers still had Mayor O'Brien on the carpet at Governor Lehman's Park Avenue home. They had already loaned the city of New York $200,000,000 in short term obligations and they were determined to see that that was safe before they dished out any more. Day before the city would have defaulted on its payroll, Mayor O'Brien capitulated to a comprehensive four-year financing program...
Married. Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford, 34, carpet tycoon, international poloist; and Film Actress Mary Duncan, 28; in Manhattan...
...such reception was waiting for the steel and oil codes. The President's own persuasion was used to help wangle the steel code. U.S. Steel's Myron C. Taylor and Bethlehem's Charles M. Schwab spent an hour on the carpet in the White House. They emerged rather grimly, refused so much as a word to newshawks. One determined correspondent took Mr. Taylor's lapel, cried: "You'd better come clean. We're stockholders in your company...