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...great contributions which American College education has made to the joy of living is apparently the institution of student third class. For the benefit of hardened cynics it may be well to explain that no Lampoon pun is intended in the foregoing. Reference merely was made to the great rush of American students for the ports of Europe which has not only lead to an overwhelming increase in the business done by the photographic board of the CRIMSON but has resulted in the conversion of lower decks of passenger liners into low rate Atlantic accomodations...
...letter such as Mr. Mayo writes shows nothing more than abysmal ignorance-or, I wonder, has he perhaps been at some time flunked out? That would explain...
While this was going on Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway of Arkansas, chairman of the Senate lobby committee, sent Bishop Cannon an impatient telegram to appear this week before the committee. He must explain, among other things, where he got the money for his stock market operations...
...never before in U. S. history has a state equalled California's gain between Census counts. Census estimators figured that California has added two million people to its 3,426,861 of 1920. Three factors explain the gain: 1) industrial development including the cinema; 2) Asiatic trade; 3) good climate for sick or elderly citizens to enjoy years of leisure.* Sample of California's growth: Beverly Hills, picturesquely perched above Los Angeles, from 674 in 1920 to 17,428 in 1930, a gain of 2,485%. Some Beverly Hillers: Funnyman Will Rogers, Cinemactors Fairbanks, Barrymore, Gilbert, Mix, Lloyd, Cinemactresses Pickford...
...money-maker among U. S. newspapers. The New York Daily News has the largest circulation in the U. S., makes other millions. But hardship makes the closest bonds. And Liberty, the Patterson pet, has found hard-going. Its advertising is slim. Just why this should be so, few can explain. In May 1924, Liberty was born. No magazine had ever been blessed with such a blast of birthday publicity or with more potent parentage. Within six months it had 600,000 readers. Advertisers in magazines were prejudiced against its Sunday-supplement flavor, but in a few years this prejudice waned...