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...Union. It follows the grim fight of determined men against howling Arctic weather, flies with them via Rudolf Island to the Pole itself, recording the weird tracery of the shifting ice pack as it appears from the air. At the Pole it shows the comrades jubilant, efficient, comfortable. They brush teeth, sluice bearded faces in the angled brightness of the Arctic sun, build an igloo settlement complete with electric lights on a 9-foot-thick ice floe. (Four scientists have already spent six months of an anticipated year there.) Camera study: chief conqueror Dr. Otto Tulyevitch Schmidt, parka and bosky...
...often, when a student is stopped by a policeman, the constabulary takes a hostile attitude on the assumption that the college boy is a "kid who can afford to pay." Such a frame of mind can only lead to resentment from the student, who goes through with his brush with the law determined to "get away with it" next time, rather than cooperate for the benefit of the whole community. Students should be arrested for violations, just like anybody else, but the law's effort should be to get them to do better next time...
...starting Monday, November 28, training table will be held at the Varsity Club for the squad members, and that a meeting for the squad will be called for 3 o'clock this afternoon. The first meet of the season is on December 16, when the Alumni return for a brush against their former team-mates. 11 more meets are scheduled after that...
From Diego Rivera came five new paintings which showed the recent change in the artist's style. Because most Government walls have already been painted and also because the Cardenas Government no longer thinks it needs Painter Rivera's ardent brush, he has concentrated on quiet easel paintings and water colors, more closely observed and felt than his oldtime posterish designs...
...scrawny, 17-year-old boy with a strong British accent got his first job as floor sweeper and general retoucher in the Chicago lithographic firm of Shober & Carqueville. A year later he was a scene painter for the Chicago Opera, priming the enormous backdrops with a large brush dipped in glue. This job he attacked so earnestly that at the end of his first day's work he fell in a dead faint on the floor. His name was Albert Sterner, born a U. S. citizen, in England, of naturalized parents...