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Incipient trouble was averted Wednesday when the highly controversial movie "Walter Mitty" was removed from the bill at a local theatre to avoid possible censorship of a gambling scene in which certain illegal sleight-of-handeries were employed...
Freshmen vacationing between terms are urged to sign out at 16 University Hall to avoid the Union food bill. Upperclassmen taking their meals at the Union sign out at Lehman Hall...
Among the ranks of those who, sincerely or insincerely, see ecstatic visions at the drop of a Rameau and consider Liszt slightly indecent, it is considered not quite proper to approve of Vladimir Horowitz. They sneer at this programs and at his private life, and scrupulously avoid his concerts. The days of Von Bulow, Busoni, and Rachmaninoff are gone, and Horowitz, the virtuosa of the new technique, is something of an anachronism...
Reminder. In Portland, Ore., Mr. & Mrs. Roger Clark were saved from a plunge over a 50-ft. embankment when their car struck a sign: "Drive carefully and avoid accidents...
Galoshes. When Napoleon's Marshal Jean Bernadotte became Charles XIV of Sweden in 1818, he was afraid that revolutionaries might endanger his throne. "Sire," said one of his ministers, "the only danger to which you are exposed in Sweden is a cold, and you can avoid that by wearing galoshes...