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Lucille spent her childhood in Jamestown (1920 pop. 38,917), but managed to see very little of it. Mostly, she inhabited a dream world peopled by glamorous alter egos. Sometimes she imagined herself to be a young lady of great poise named Sassafrassa, who combined the best features of Pearl White, Mabel Normand and Pola Negri. Another make-believe identity was Madeline, a beauteous cowgirl who emerged from the pages of Zane Grey's melodramatic novel, The Light of Western Stars, To get authentic background for Madeline, young Lucille corresponded with the chambers of commerce of Butte and Anaconda...
Eliot plays Leverett today for the tennis championship but although the result of this match will change the total scores it will not alter the final standings...
What the Combined Charities committee is trying to do is alter students' contributing habits by changing the names on the Card, a dubious task at best. Its plan will do little more than subject students to the year long solicitations of disaffected charities...
...born in Riverside, Pa., went to Susquehanna University and Yale Law School. He left private law practice in Manhattan in 1939 to serve as a counsel for Big Steel during a Government investigation. As secretary of U.S. Steel's operating subsidiary, he learned production; as Fairless' alter ego on many trips to Washington, he helped shape policy. This week Vice Chairman Blough was helping Lawyer John W. Davis plead Big Steel's case in the Supreme Court against presidential seizure...
First, the Nationalist majority in Parliament revoked the extension of franchise to non-Europeans. The Supreme Court promptly overruled them, since the constitution expressly requires a two-thirds vote to alter the franchise. Now the Nationalists are in the process of setting up a "Parliamentary Court," which could reverse the Supreme Court on constitutional matters...