Word: prescott
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Students have bicycles at Harvard in order to get to classes from distant river dormitories with maximum speed. The effectiveness of this mode of transportation depends heavily on using Quincy Street northbound. Else Emerson, Sever, Robinson, and Fogg become as isolated as a contagion ward. To cycle north on Prescott Street and then head south again to get to the right points on Quincy would indeed be an unlikely maneuver...
Miss Davis, cognizant of last night's Parker Street attack and another on Prescott Street where a girl's dress was torn from her, issued the old warning, "Don't take unnecessary risks," and "Walk in pairs...
...defeated dogged, conservative Forrest Donnell, became the only Democrat to turn a Republican out of a Senate seat. Truman opposed Hennings in the primary in his home state, was glad enough to get him in the finals. ¶ In Connecticut, Adman Bill Benton squeaked through over Wall Street Banker Prescott Bush, while Benton's old advertising-agency partner, Chester Bowles, was losing the governorship (see below). Brien ("Mr. Atom") McMahon, who ignored both Benton & Bowles, was easily reelected...
Dishes & Stymies. His G.O.P. opponent, also a wealthy amateur in national politics, matched him trick for trick. A partner in the Wall Street firm of Brown Brothers, Harriman, tall, ruggedly handsome Prescott Bush had 15-minute TV spots, five-minute TV spots, and one-minute TV spots. A Yaleman (Skull & Bones), director of more than half a dozen corporations, and a sportsman (as onetime U.S. Golf Association president, he is generally credited with leading the campaign for the abolition of the stymie), Bush felt his problem, too, was to meet the people. He had himself photographed shaking hands with dishwashers...
Regarding your Sept. 11 article on Bob Prescott and his Flying Tiger Line, wherein you state he painted one of his C-47s like a totem pole and flew a "fanciful" Texan and eight friends to Vancouver, B.C. for a weekend...