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...husky bread-baker's helper was also a skilled cake and pie wrapper. His father 22 and his numerous brothers and sisters were always losing their jobs, or never getting jobs. He had just lost his last one, had a brother at work who was unaccountably registered in another district. Both brothers were drafted the same day, leaving the family without steady support. The Rev. Mr. Gruman felt like the devil, could do nothing about...
...stuffy smugness in the non-existent league, a tendency to shout down its own rain barrel persistently in an attempt to justify sloppy half-hearted football with a lace collar of gothic-tower dignity. There is the gentlemanly nonsense which leads a Harvard man to beaming play patty-cake over the fact that although the season was one big set-back, "after all, we did beat Yale." The Dartmouth
Birthdays. Katharine Cornell, grande dame of the American theatre, her 43rd, by reviving Bernard Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma, putting her able cast through its pre-Manhattan paces in Detroit. Wendell L. Willkie, his 49th, without cake-cutting. Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt, tabloid darling, her 17th, still a year away from her debutante splash...
Scientific Experiment. In Long Beach, Calif., a 33-year-old chiropractor named Wilfred C. Blair locked himself in a closet with a 25-lb. cake of dry ice. Aim: a "scientific experiment" with carbon dioxide. As the ice melted, it gave off C02 fumes. In 20 minutes, the chiropractor was dead. Next to his body police found a notebook containing his pulse, temperature and respiration record...
...Lincoln School, Son Charles, 10, gave Father Abraham Krasne a lesson in woodworking (see cut). Occasion: the school's Fathers' Day, staged on Lincoln's Birthday, when some 200 fathers went to school, learned from their children how to handle tools, make a flute, bake a cake, manufacture gunpowder. No mere goodwill show, Fathers' Day at Lincoln is based on a cardinal principle of progressive education: that parents should participate in their children's schooling. Last week's big event was the birth of a guinea pig, supervised and learnedly explained to fathers...