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Hooverites explain that the President-Elect will make the Presidency a bigger job than it ever was; that he will Organize it and obtain Cooperation, Efficiency. It has often been said of Mr. Hoover, with various inflections: "He's a man who makes big jobs out of little ones...
Fees that U. S. builders pay their architects each year total not less than $80,000,000. Of that sum architects by unorderly conduct of their business waste perhaps $8,000,000. If queried on the wastage, an architect would doubtless explain that he is too concerned for the needs of his client to be careful of his own expenditures...
...more Menjou, with slight movements of his hands, lips, and eyebrows, convinces you that laughter and humanity can exist under a starched, striped shirt. Wittiest shot of this good picture is the happy ending-Menjou arranging books in the window of a Fifth Avenue bookstore so that their titles explain to his sweetheart that he has gotten a divorce from the heiress...
...gone without food. But there seems to be an increasing number of human animals who do not develop an appetite even when undernourished. Professor Anton Julius Carlson, physiologist of the University of Chicago, has found out this animal anomaly and stated so to Chicago dietitians last week. It may explain why office clerks, shoppers, draymen and school children seem to be increasingly satisfied with a sandwich-and-milkshake lunch at the widespreading U. S. "sandwich bars...
...need for new physical equipment, particularly the new gymnasium and a new locker building, and the continued expansion of the program of intramural sport which has caused this need, are matters for the attention of every Harvard man. There is no one better qualified than Mr. Bingham himself to explain these things, all of which are fruits of his activity of the past two years...