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...take long to find some of them. Police chased the athletic coach of Madrid University around the campus and finally cornered him and a truckload of cartridges, flame projectors and machine-gun belts. Other caches were found almost everywhere the police looked...
Ninth Floor. Votes-for-women is no longer an issue, but the flame of feminism burns as high as ever in Helen Reid's compact breast. Proud is she that no other metropolitan newspaper employs as many female executives. There are Mrs. Helen W. Leavitt, assistant advertising manager; Elsa Lang, promotion director; Esther Kimmel in charge of the Home Economics Department; Books Editor Irita Van Doren; Mary Day Winn, assistant fiction editor; Book Critic Isabel Paterson. And most important, presiding on the ninth floor, Marie Mattingly Meloney...
...Prize (1922, 1925, 1927). Robinson is by long odds the most respected living U. S. poet. In his 65th year this New England Browning still turns out a lengthy blank-verse narrative that seems sometimes garrulous but never silly; though his poetic fire is down to a low blue flame, it is not yet extinguished. Fed by no fiercely burning faith but well banked with the coke of agnostic irony, it may well flicker along through many another winter...
...Censors refused to give the picture a license. Thereupon Paramount officials in Manhattan sent the film back to Hollywood for a new title and other changes. When Belle of-New Orleans was proposed New Orleans civic organizations spluttered vehement objection. It was subsequently called St. Louis Woman, My Old Flame and several other things before Paramount chose Belle of the Nineties. Only two major changes-a hasty and unconvincing marriage at the conclusion and the removal of a sequence showing Mae West and John Miljan preparing to retire-were made before Censor Joseph Breen saw and approved the picture last...
...Clear the air!'' Then CQ "Attention, please!" Then "All stations please stand by!" Meanwhile the operator in a little stucco Radio Marine Station at Tuckerton, N. J. had relayed a query from a ship in the Morro Castle's neighborhood: "Was a nearby ship afire?" A pillar of flame could be seen. But it was not until 3:25 that Alagna could fight his way back through the flames with authority from Captain Warms, desperate on the bridge, to send out the dread SOS. "Di-di-di-da-da-da-di-di-di! The flames are under the radio room...