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After registration the completed forms are trucked to the University Printing Office where a staff from the Alumni Records Office begins the two week job of alphabetizing them. From a chaotic, multicolored 11-foot stack the cards are separated into 26 piles according to the first letter of the last name and then each of he piles is neatly sliced by machine into 12 sets of three by five cards...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lukas, | Title: Twelve Little Cards | 10/2/1953 | See Source »

...chocolate ice cream and orange juice." She loves television, often eats her meals from a tray before her 17-inch screen, and races home from the theater to watch late-at-night TV movies, particularly British ones. She keeps a sketching pad handy, for doodling during the commercials. A stack of drugstore novels on her bed table serves as insurance against insomnia. She has relatively little interest in politics or world affairs, but remembers that she once struck a vague blow for social justice by picketing a shoestore ("A friend asked me to do it. Somebody was doing something unfair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Trouper | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

...tapered, tubular steel legs. The chairs have comfortable seats and backs, come with a dozen different types of arm rests. The tables have 25 basic parts, which can be used to assemble 130 tables of various sizes, heights and shapes. To solve the schools' storage problem, the chairs stack easily, the tables nest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Academic Repose | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

Playhouse of Stars (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Storm Warnings, with Robert Stack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Jul. 13, 1953 | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

Ritchie's stack of orders revealed that the additive was used in tinkling Good Humor wagons. Such hard-fisted businesses as the Gillette Co. and General Foods Corp. were satisfied AD-X2 customers. Engineers from industry, mechanics from the Army and Navy, battery salesmen, all praised the additive in testimony before the committee. But no one could swear that AD-X2 had really revived their batteries. "Suppose you have a cold," suggested Dr. Astin, "and you take some aspirin, and you are better the same day. Did the aspirin do it, or would you have been better anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Alchemy of Batteries | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

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