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More than twenty members of the Mountaineering Club will spend the weekend between terms at Spur Cabin, the club's lodge on the slopes of Mt. Washington, it was announced at a meeting hold Wednesday night in Winthrop House Junior Common Room...
Town & Country, which claims to be the U.S. discoverer of Ludwig Bemelmans. Evelyn Waugh, Henry Miller and Oliver St. John Gogarty, is now alone in the once-crowded field that held Vanity Fair, Spur, Horse & Horsemen, Country Life and the Sportsman. It has survived by getting under Hearst's wing, and by getting back on the old Home Journal beam. "We found out," says Harry Bull, "that sportsmen can't read...
...advance of social medicine is breaking no speed records in the U.S. But in New York City last week it got a sharp spur: the city's Board of Estimate approved a "womb to tomb" health plan for 175,000 municipal employes and their families. More important, the city's action put pep in a new organization, the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York...
...Created a twelve-man Presidential Research Board, headed by OWMR Director John R. Steelman, to spur peacetime scientific development...
...Little Foleyet (pop. 2,000), twelve miles north, was jammed. Big mining firms like Hollinger, Mclntyre, Moneta and Vincent were buying up claims at fancy prices. The Canadian National Railways was already making emergency stops a mile from the strike site, and there was talk of putting in a spur...