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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...first time in the history of Phillips Brooks House, the Social Service Committee will publish a 20-page booklet describing its work, next fall to be distributed to all new Freshmen, it was announced yesterday by the committee chairman, Harry Newman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brooks House to Issue Social Service Booklet | 5/7/1940 | See Source »

Reigning London playwright, who has put even Noel Coward's eye out, is 34-year-old Welshman Emlyn Williams, known in the U. S. chiefly for his murder play, Night Must Fall. Son of a Welsh miner, Williams did not speak English till he was eight, did not see a professional show till he was 19. Playing in London are his autobiographical The Corn Is Green, packing them in after 600 performances, and The Light of Heart, story of a drunken, down-at-heel actor who gets his last chance to stage a comeback in a myth ical Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Lear in London | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...Deal reform, but a ghost of Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom. When San Francisco got Federal permission to build Hetch Hetchy (in a national park), the enabling Raker Act made the condition that Hetch Hetchy power should never fall for resale into the hands of a private corporation. Claiming at first that their deal was an emergency measure, later that it was not a resale but an agency contract, the city and P. G. & E. managed to avoid the gaze of Secretary of Interior Hubert Work, drew a warning from Secretary of Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, finally fell afoul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Hetch Hetchy Contract Killed | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...Aldrich, Pines Camp today has a $50,000 plant complete with 55 modern stucco cottages (hot water, steam heat, electricity, private bath & shower, etc.), filling station, restaurant, laundry, grocery store and trailer grounds. Monthly payroll for the camp's 27 employes runs about $1,000. In the busy fall-winter-spring season it grosses $250 on good days, last year netted a comfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Motels | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Largest of the Harvard Square dealers in tutoring notes, the College Tutoring Bureau with University Tutors, which went out of business last fall, supplied 38 per cent of all student-bought notes last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Tutoring Bureau Closes for Good; Settles Law-Suit by Macmillan Company | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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