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...dancing slippers is an understatement. Astaire and Rogers symbolize their era quite as completely as the Castles symbolized theirs. Astaire, born Austerlitz in Omaha, is eleven years younger than Vernon Castle. With his sister Adele, now Lady Cavendish, he was the top U. S. stage dancer of the 1920s. With Ginger Rogers he has been the top cinema dancer of the 1930s. In popularity, proficiency, appearance and earning capacity, Ginger Rogers is at least the equal of Irene Castle in her best days...
...cartoonist for the New York Evening Mail in 1911. He went to the World in 1913, first of the small group of men who contributed to that brief flowering of literate criticism and liberal opinion, the World's editorial and "opp.-ed." (opposite-editorial) pages of the 1920s...
...1920s his policies grew ridiculous. He published documents charging bribery of Senators by Mexico, saw them exposed as forgeries. He was expelled from France after engineering the theft of a secret Anglo-French naval pact. He established himself as No. i exponent of the Red Scare...
Scientific research into the pituitary was not pushed until the 1920s, when Herbert McLean Evans of the University of California caused rats to become giants by injecting them with crude pituitary extract. He dwarfed rats by pituitary removal, then with pituitary injections restored them to normal size. He made it clear that the reddish little gland was intimately concerned with one of the most important of biological processes-growth. Since then the veil of ignorance has been gradually lifted...
Putting over big deals with the aid of champagne suppers and chorus girls was standard business technique of the roaring 1920s. Trying that technique on representatives of the biggest business in the land-the U. S. Government-was last week among the allegations brought against William P. Buckner Jr., 31, a smooth, sporty lawyer who lived in The Bronx but could boast kinship with Thomas A. Buckner of New York Life Insurance Co. (uncle...