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...October of 1870 the Reverend Phillips Brooks laid the cornerstone of this most ambitious building ever attempted by the University. It was to be an immense Victorian Gothic pile, erected as memorial to "those who fought and died to preserve the Union." "The Delta," a triangular shaped piece of the student as training grounds the war, was selected as a festive gathering of Harvard's sons the splendid dedication service took place. Oliver Wendell Holmes was there. He had written a stirring dedication hymn for the occasion. In eloquent verses he expressed the hopes of its builders...
...wish you could see the Tommies and the Yanks fighting side by side in the hills here, each unit depending on the other for the upholding of a flank. The last time I was up at the front, four days ago, I saw a little pile of dead by the roadside, six Tommies, four Yanks. There was an argument as to whether they should be buried together or apart. A U.S. colonel settled the thing with 'Hell, bury them together. They fought together and they died from the same shell...
...since the Easter Sunday (1937) murder of Model Veronica Gedeon had Manhattan newsmen had a really good chance to indulge in boob-catching antics like diagrams with X's marking spots. This one looked as if it would back the Gedeon killing on to the trash pile...
...tackle the various incidents. Men were seen running towards Widener with buckets of water from the old well in an effort to put out the fire there. Tolstoy, Emerson, Taussig burned merrily in the basement of Widener bright enough to throw ample light on the crews clearing away the pile of rocks from the crumbled east wall which was obstructing the road. Massachusetts Hall suffered a hit from an incendiary bomb, but the fire was put out by the powerful stream of water furnished by the navy crews...
Ginger Rogers was fashionable Sculptor Boris Lovet-Lorski's idea of the ideal model for a statue of the typical woman defense worker. He put her into plaster, standing on a pile of gears with a baby in one arm, a monkey wrench in the other. In her next movie, Lovet-Lorski's typical woman defense worker plays a typical woman defense worker...