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Fast as a Race Horse. The flames struck hardest at Bar Harbor, Me. (pop. 4,300), summer playground of the rich and famous on mountainous, timbered Mt. Desert (pronounced dessert) Island. All one day and all through one night, a great fire eccentrically marched and countermarched around the outskirts of the town, while hundreds of soldiers and townspeople fought to control it. In the afternoon, when the shifting wind began to blow a gale from the northwest, the fire crowned into the tops of trees and leaped forward "as fast as a race horse could run," blasting through wooded estates...
...Harvard Union is not a delightful place. To a Freshman who has waited half an hour for a meal, it is considerably less than delightful. He will finish his dessert in a hurry, and leave, no matter whether there is a meeting of the debating club at the Union or the speech of a prominent European. To him the Union is the place where he has to eat, but it is not a social center. So the Freshman doesn't have a social center; he waits anxiously--to move into a House, and until then he is often completely lost...
Honored in Boston: Broadway Actress Ruth Gordon. On the Ritz-Carlton dessert list appeared a Coupe Rath Gordon...
...latter part of possible Council action that University residents will most feel the pinch. Specifically, conservation steps would encompass eliminating dessert at noon meals and more importantly in the light of Government stress upon wheat conservation, passing by wheat cereals on the breakfast menu and dispensing with bread for dinner...
...collar girls-and used up all the subscription money they had paid in. To keep going, Betty went to a bank (for $1,000), to Dallas Oilman Harold D. Byrd (for $5,000 and a partnership), and to 90 Texans whom she invited to a free chicken dinner. With dessert she served a 45-minute speech, talked 45 of her guests into buying $8,600 worth of stock...