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...melodrama with enough 'body' for a masculine audience." Theodore Wood, Jr. 2G, who has been a consistent leading man when parts are drawn from a hat on "production nights" was more explicit. "It's good rugged stuff--all sorts of words are used without a blush." Wood did not explain whether it was the play or the players that did not "blush...
...Brooklyn judge did not understand why this slight gesture was considered important testimony in a divorce case. Court Interpreter Vincent D'Agrossa volunteered to explain. This case involved an Italian couple, and to Italians the bit of old-world folklore had plenty of meaning. The gesture, said Interpreter D'Agrossa, was "what we call cornuto." It was an ancient custom to cut the spurs off castrated cocks and graft them to the birds' heads, where they grew as horns. Since the horned capon was a strutting definition of sexual inadequacy, its horns became a symbol of cuckoldry...
...Edward Carl Stevenson of Harvard also vouched for the existence of this queer entity. At first there seemed to be no place for it in the physical scheme. Then it was recalled that the Japanese physicist, Yukawa, had postulated the existence of just such a thing to help explain energy exchanges in the atomic nucleus. In honor of Yukawa, there is a tendency in Europe to call the particles yukons. The name barytron ("heavy particle") is gaining favor in the U. S. At the American Physical Society's convention in Chicago last week, barytrons were a popular subject...
With the exasperating social psychology that Mr. Howe considers strong evidence of English decay, English critics explain his Anglophobia by saying blandly that he did not enjoy his stay at Cambridge 17 years ago. This theory is almost enough in itself to make Quincy Howe heave another book at the British lion...
Speakers will explain Harvard plan to bring 20 refugee students here on scholarships next year, and will outline the general nature of the refugee problem and the forces being marshalled to meet it. Lane will report on the progress of the drive for contributions to date...