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Kansas, under its new coach, Ad Lindsey, smothered Iowa State...
...Robinson Crusoe (United Artists) bouncing Douglas Fairbanks Sr. cheerfully burlesques Daniel Defoe's old story. He does it by his familiar formula of expansio ad absurdum, inflating his original idea into incredible superlatives. Fairbanks is on his way to Sumatra to shoot tigers when his schooner yacht passes close to a tropic island and he bets his friend (William Farnum) that he is competent to mold jungle into civilization with only bare hands and one toothbrush. The friend takes the bet; Fairbanks jumps overboard; his dog follows; Fairbanks throws back the toothbrush. Audiences chuckle as he staggers...
...college is the quotient of its tradition divided into its student body and Princeton's tradition was taking a turn. Dr. John Grier Hibben, the gentle scholar who succeeded strenuously scholarly Woodrow Wilson in 1912, had retired. Into his place, part-time and ad interim, was coming a figure as interesting in the traditional academic scene as is onetime Morgan Partner Thomas Sovereign Gates who took charge of Pennsylvania's big, down-at-heel University two years ago. From its board of trustees Princeton had drafted the lumbering, plainspoken, understanding head of the country's second biggest life insurance company?...
...Francis Joseph Spellman was a bishop. He took his crosier (pastoral staff), episcopal ring, book of Gospels, mitre and gloves, and proceeded through St. Peter's, blessing the congregation as he went. Returning to the altar. Bishop Spellman genuflected thrice, wished his consecrator well with a thrice- intoned "Ad multos annos" (for many years...
...hurts. This occurs because Congress has given them un scientific presumptions that their disabilities are service-connected. By putting compensation back on a war basis, N. E. L. would save another $125,000,000. It would limit free hospitalization to veterans who could boast of real war hurts, halve ad ministrative costs by clearing the bounty rolls, weed out frauds among war-risk insured...