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...morning coffee break had become as deeply entrenched in U.S. custom as the seventh-inning stretch and the banana split. Clerks, secretaries, junior executives and salesgirls had come to consider it an inalienable right of the American office worker. In the face of that terrible, soft insistence, the fuming employer could only take his finger off the unanswered buzzer, jam on his hat, and follow along after the crowd to the coffee shop. As a matter of fact, he kind of liked a cup himself...
...split, she said, was caused by repeated difficulties with WHRB, and the Radcliffe station's desire to prove that it can operate independently. A statement released jointly by Miss McKinster and Burton G. Malkiel '53, Station Manager, WHRB, said...
...Cliffe station is confident that the split will not hurt it, and it even expects production to improve, Miss McKinster said. New schedules have already been prepared for the next week, and promises of technical help have come from outside sources...
House superintendents are split over the student porter plan. Two think it will work, two are sure it wouldn't and the others want to wait and try it before rendering judgment...
Mama and its sponsor, Maxwell House Coffee, have one of the few happy commercial marriages in television. The fragile mood of each show builds steadily without being split down the middle by TV's most distressing habit: the long-winded advertising plug. The commercials are blended skillfully into family coffee klatsches at the beginning and end of each program...