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...deception leads to another. To make sure that the young man cares for her and not the Hunter fortune, Dorothy encourages him to make love to the secretary. Equipped with more common sense than perspicacity, he does so until the combination of a week-end in the Adirondacks, a bowl of hot punch and the secretary's husband prod him into a proper proposal of marriage...
...game. With Bates, Brown, Holy Cross, Dartmouth, Army and Princeton in a row the schedule-makers have done a job second only to those at Yale. It will be a sorry sight this fall to watch the two bedraggled outfits, like tired gladiators battling it out in the Yale Bowl...
...Give Germans condemned to death the right to take their own lives as the Greeks gave Socrates a bowl of hemlock. In the modern Nazi State the procedure recommended last week is for the German jailor to enter the cell of the condemned and say, "Here is a pistol and a bottle of poison. Take your choice." According to the Ministry of Justice, "Criminals of the fouler sort should not, of course, receive this privilege. They should be decapitated, as at present. The theory of permitting a man to carry out his own sentence is the logical fulfillment...
...Philharmonic. In honor of Mozart, he opened his program with the D Major Symphony. Salzburg audiences this year have showered flowers on Mengelberg, applauded Felix Weingartner and Clemens Krauss, cheered themselves hoarse over Bruno Walter, but the roar they gave Toscanini sounded like nothing so much as a Yale Bowl demonstration. When he tried to direct the audience's enthusiasm to the orchestra, he discovered that the players to a man had put down their instruments, were standing and applauding him. To stop the ovation he had to disperse the orchestra, duck away to his dressing room...
...royal family could get to the coronation city of Khotan on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert, the troops of General Shen Shih-tsai, young Chinese provincial governor, swooped down on King Khalid with planes furnished by Soviet Russia. Last week a brief dispatch from the sand bowl disposed of the pickle maker's ambitious son: "Provincial troops overthrew the insurgent Moslem forces of Dr. Khalid Sheldrake. He was reported to have fled in defeat toward India, following the wholesale surrender of his troops...