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...into all sorts of scrapes and took them all with the same dull look of languorous rapidity. To the mind of Josef von Sternberg, the dead pan was a panacea. But Dietrich under the new regime of Frank Bozarge is free to act, and she dispels with a flash all doubts as to whether...
...roistering too. In nearby Lowell House, Harvard undergraduates staged a mock broadcast of the dinner at the Fly. Play by play they reported the event from open windows: "Now the President is taking off his galoshes. . . . The President is choking on an oyster. . . . Now he is drinking champagne. . . . Flash! Al Smith has just disappeared in the basement. . . ." The broadcast came abruptly to an end when the police interfered...
...President's merry dinner came to an equally abrupt end with a real news flash from Washington. He knew that Secretary of the Navy Swanson had been critically ill with pleurisy all week. But the news was that the President's cousin, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, had suddenly succumbed to a heart attack during an attack of intestinal influenza. Cutting his Harvard evening short, the President and his three sons drove to the Presidential special, did some hurried telegraphing. In an hour he had word that his cousin's funeral would be held...
...mile relay, however, it is the Cornell runners who are picked to flash across the line before the Crimson quartet composed of John Dorman, running anchor, Frank Leary, a member of the Freshman team last year, Dick Brayton, who is shaping up very well this year, and Charlie Cretzmeyer...
...dazzling flash the whole panorama shifts, and these characters assume their new roles in the gang. Immediately preparations build up for the denouement, an outcome that can be predicted in general import, but that leaves an exhilarating suspense as to details. A final charming touch occurs when the pretty bait, bared in her shame and led off by the police, swears that she never liked any guy as much as Calvin Miller...