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...department since 1916. During school hours she habitually wears a tailored skirt, shirtwaist, tie, white "physician's" coat. She moves briskly about her laboratories, lectures her classes in clear, crisp tones. Her recent writings for learned publications have dealt with the winter habits and yearly food consumption of adult spotted newts. But her favorite preoccupation has been and, says she, will always be Mayflies, because Mayflies are fine for small boys to fish with. Her field book on ponds and streams, which she illustrated herself, is an angler's favorite. She gets "great fun" reading personal letters...
...MYSTERY OF VAUCLUSE - J. H. Wallis-Dutton ($2). The monastic peace of the adult college was shattered by the murder of its founder-leader. It took more than one investigator to find out who could be so base...
Last week Mrs. Willebrandt was working hard to defeat the Government's contention that a puzzle of over 50 pieces is no child's game, should pay the 10% wholesale tax on adult amusements. Most puzzles are 150-500 pieces. Her argument: no matter who plays with them, or how many pieces they contain, jigsaw puzzles are childish, picayune, taxfree...
...shrewd guess on Burns & Allen's radio salary: $2.000 per week. Combined with cinema and vaudeville profits they make some $5,000 per week, live in a swank apartment on Manhattan's Central Park South. Gracie Allen, a normal adult, chafes under a growing reputation for living her comedy character...
...more important than the adult personages in the case of Reynolds v. Reynolds by last week were two diminutive protagonists neither of whom was yet able to make much sense either about the Reynolds' estate or any other matter...