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...fires an academic administrator every now and then. President Conant was quite right when he made the distinction between ousting a professor and getting rid of a president. It will probably do a lot of college presidents good to realize that they don't hold life terms. The old bug-bear of academic freedom doesn't come in to this...
...good outdoor jumps, gave demonstrations of rudimentary turns. Department store models tried and failed to live up to their skiing costumes. Fancy skaters whirled on the miniature rinks. In the steam-heated cellar below the snowdrifts, agents for innumerable winter resorts and ski-supply houses set up booths. Bug-eyed at these goings-on, spectators reserved special awe for the two items of the wintersports show that really explained why it was there. One was a snow machine, the other Hannes Schneider...
Princeton's offense, sharpened since its tie with Harvard, rattled off 34 points in as many minutes. Cornell, bug but inexperienced, came back with two touchdowns in three minutes. Coach Crisler rushed his regulars back into the game, stopped the rally with another touchdown, 41-t013...
...world's fastest blackamoor, Jesse Owens, with four Olympic crowns in his valise. With very little money in his pocket, Sprinter Owens made no secret of the fact that he was returning to the U. S. to cash in on his athletic reputation for all it was worth. Bug-eyed Radioclown Eddie Cantor, whose recent offer of a college scholarship ended in an unfortunate cribbing fiasco (TIME, April 20), was said to be offering Owens $4,000 a week just to take him on a personal tour. A Manhattan theatre was said to be clamoring for the dusky speedster...
...glamour headquarters: Hollywood. As evidence of Radio's Hollywood trend, admen pointed to a dozen important programs scheduled to be regularly broadcast from the cinema capital this season, in comparison with last season's four or five. With Radio thus definitely established in Hollywood, cinemactors gazed bug-eyed with joy at Variety's report that "[Radio] salaries of $10.000 and over for individual names for single performances may be paid," and that "over a 39-week season . . the lowest requirement for Holly-wood shows alone will be in excess of 1,000 names." Only croaking voices...