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...lawyers who would be willing to defend students booked on charges of disturbing the peace, much like the list of doctors the Hygiene Department keeps handy. Next time the paddy wagons come rolling into Central Square Square packed with Harvard undergraduates, there should not only be a bail-poster, but a list of lawyers as well...
...involved MGM's The Great Caruso, starring Mario Lanza (TIME, Aug. 6), and the Coca-Cola Co., sponsors of Tenor Lanza's U.S. radio show. Caruso's son Enrico Jr., 48,* and 28-year-old Grandsons Enrico and Roberto, were "disgusted" with Coke billboard and poster ads ballyhooing the picture. Not that they had anything in particular against Cokes, explained the younger Enrico, but "we Europeans look upon commercial advertising from a different viewpoint than Americans." The family took the matter to court and the "disgusting" ads were ordered blocked...
...father didn't know what to do with his obstreperous teen-aged son-until he spotted the poster announcing a new sort of school. The school taught only one subject; it had only one teacher and only one classroom on the seventh floor of a dingy Chicago office building. But that day in 1896, the father entered his son just the same. He wanted the teacher, he said, to give his boy "personal attention...
...never felt better. Furthermore, the President had finally gotten the White House fixed up to suit him. Fully settled again, after three years at Blair House, he could not resist announcing that he had managed in the process to escape from That Bed-a carved and canopied four-poster which was installed by Teddy Roosevelt and dutifully occupied by every President since...
Truman spoke as if his years in Teddy's four-poster had almost disjointed him. It was, he said, "the most uncomfortable, the worst bed I ever slept in." To his mind, it was also too big to fit properly in the President's bedroom. Last week it had been relegated to a guest room, and Truman was luxuriating in a modern three-quarter width affair-"a kind of Hollywood bed"-with a low headboard and no footboard...