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Beggars can't be choosers. Alderman Peter Grover of Austin, Minn., was out jogging one morning last fall when over the earphones of his portable radio he heard a report that a meat-packing plant just 40 miles across the border in Mason City, Iowa, had been ordered to close down. The plant was, said a Mason City judge, a public nuisance: noisy and smelly, regularly fouling surrounding streets with blood and animal parts. Grover knew an opportunity when he heard one. Within days, Austin had presented the plant's owners, North west By-Products Inc., with...
Reagan's glen plaid has good lineage. The fabric was manufactured by the British firm of Illingworth, Morris & Co. Ltd., which also furnishes the interiors of Rolls-Royce autos, the Pope's vestments and the covers for the tennis balls used at Wimbledon. White House Aide Morgan Mason (son of Actor James Mason) used to be executive director of Illingworth, Morris, and when Friend Nancy Reagan wanted some new suiting for her husband, Mason hustled over some swatches from which the glen plaid was chosen...
...roamed the heath. The novelist made contemporary by film (Tess) and television (The Mayor of Casterbridge) was born in 1840 in a remote Dorset village. There, farmers, shepherds and artisans lived in a kind of Elizabethan time warp. But something dour and reductive in this son of a stone mason drove him back beyond morris dances to a pagan Britain haunted by ancient superstitions and druidic spells...
...Mason followers are given more leeway. Although they must take half of their eight courses at the school or in a pre-chosen "home" department, the remaining four chosen are left open to electives. As program direction Nancy Pyle explains, "All of these people have already had experience and are pretty good at what they do. As it is, a whole year away from their careers is a long time; we must have a totally flexible program...
...Perhaps the most famous example was Gen. George C. Marshall's 1947 pronouncement of the Marshall Plan, the U.S. contribution to the rebuilding of post-war Europe and a major first step in the Cold War. Few in attendance that year recognized the plan for what it was however. Mason Hammond 25, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature Emeritus, who as the "caller" of the academic procession has attended Commencements regularly since before World War II, recalls. "At the time I didn't think it was a terribly important speech...