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Eager to take advantage of the publicity which this unexpected coup offered, the Lampoon treasurer conferred at once with CRIMSON editors to determine what policy they should follow in dealing with the captive, in order to afford the best stories for metropolitan papers. Meantime, efficient telephoning from the Lampoon office had brought two press photographers to the steps of Randolph Hall, where in the drizzling rain they patiently waited for the "encounter" which Lampoon editors had promised, and to which CRIMSON men had courteously been invited. After some delay, caused by the jesters' belief that there were not sufficient reporters...
...insignia they have won, and no matter how proficient they are in their respective events, three classes of men would be affected: the lettermen on probation, lettermen who have given up their sport of former years, and the lettermen of sports like tennis, track, and the like, who could afford to devote time to the Houses. The only objection to including these man in the competitions has been that their presence would discourage others; this is a theory which has not been supported sufficiently to enable it to act as a deterrent. If lettermen were to be admitted into House...
...also a forward step in the cinema world to put Miss Diana Wynyard in a leading role, and it is encouraging to see the star of "Cavaleade" already keeping the best company which the screen world can afford, Lewis Stone, whose praise has always been insufficient. Phillips Holmes, of the sharp aesthetic face, is the man in whose breast the conflict of principle works. He is the internationally-minded American youth, who returns from his chemical studies in Geneva, to find America embarking on the second "war to end war" in 1940. His birth was the result...
...lately been a hotbed of Negro jazz-Duke Ellington and Don Redman with their high-spiced bands, Torch-Singers Ethel Waters and Adelaide Hall, Cecil Mack's choir; the four Mills Brothers who learned to sing like tubas and saxophones back in Piqua, Ohio, because they could not afford to buy the instruments; Tapdancer Bill Robinson who went to the laboratory at midnight because his feet twinkle faster when the night is half done...
Well could U. S. scissor-makers afford to adopt some such plan for increasing profits. Biggest U. S. makers include J. Wiss & Sons and W. H. Compton, of Newark; H. Boker & Co. (established in 1837, now run by the founder's grandchildren), J. A. Henckels (branch of the German firm of the same name) and Griffon Cutlery Works, in Manhattan. Several other companies make scissors as side lines, including United Shoe Machinery Corp. of Boston, Landers, Frary & Clark of Xew Britain, Conn., Remington Arms and Winchester Repeating Arms Co. of New Haven...