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Fearful lest it should leave behind in its dilapidated quarters some of its impeccable character, the Times pondered long before moving, chose a site little farther away than its staid Editor Geoffrey Dawson could throw a handful of type. Its new six-floor 18th-Century style building did not startle the antiquated Blackfriars neighborhood, for the fagade is of dull Portland stone and weathered hand-made tawny-brown bricks, each chosen with fond care and joined, as the Times said, with "a sympathetic mortar." Lest the 152-year-old Times lose some of its hoary atmosphere, a new rubber-floored...
Fetching girls in bathing suits and the latest forms of night gowns paraded last night upon the staid platforms of Emerson D more accustomed to the stately tread of philosophy professors. (If we'd only known about it before it happened...
Harvard, that ancient institution on the bank of the Thames, which Artemus Ward described "as pleasantly situated in the Parke House, School Street, Boston," is the next to be considered. And the staid Harvard lads do not fare too well under female inspection...
...week arrived Dr. Carl Ferdinand Eyring, onetime physics professor at Brigham Young University, to be first president of the New England Mormon Mission. He found that some 3,000 New Englanders were already Latter-day Saints. President Eyring set up headquarters in a house in Cambridge, hired the old, staid Cantabrigia Club (women) for Sunday meetings. With him he brought 20 young missionaries to begin the work of evangelizing the new territory...
...made up for it with champagne. Even thicker than sample-passers from food companies at the convention last week were wine and liquor salesmen, whose stocks of courtesy cocktails ran out fast. Budweiser was served free on the hotel roof. A waiters' champagne race down Broad Street made staid Philadelphians stare...