Word: models
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...White's partner Lawrence W. Parsons '53, points out, there are more nuances to collecting and running model railroads than most people dream of. When you mention model trains students generally think of Lionel toys they had when they were younger. Among connoisseurs these trains are contemptuously spoken of as "tin-plates" and they will have nothing to do with them. Hobbyists deal only with exact reproduction of commercial and antiquated trains, all of which they build themselves...
...themselves, were secured as advisors, a charter obtained from the Student Council, elections held and the year's program planned. The club hopes to get outside speakers, schedule movies, and to take numerous short photography trips. Robert P. Gillis '52, president of the club hopes to arouse interest in model railroads. If enough men respond, the club will build a complete layout in the basement of one of the houses or yard dormitories...
...Great Record War of 1949-50 finally ended last week after one year of battling by the corporation giants. Its conclusion came with the appearance of RCA's long playing record, patterned after Columbia's model. Now the consumer has three different record styles to choose from: the old record at 78 rpms, Victor's doughnut-hole model at 45 rpms, and the long playing ones at 33 1/3 rpms. These three will now compete on an equal footing, for the same material is available on all speeds...
Forrest grew up in a big, comfortable Victorian house in Melrose, outside Boston. He built model ships, and with his pals re-enacted the charge of San Juan Hill in the wood behind the house, using cordwood for cannon...
...belief in Greek is greater than ever," said 84-year-old Gilbert Murray, who 45 years ago served as model for Shaw's brash young classicist. Murray, an author and statesman and, until his resignation in 1936, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, is one of the few men left in a mechanistic age who still "know Greek" and believes in it as part of the education of the full...