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...puts the saucer dahn, and 'e says, 'Sid,' 'e says, 'I'd like ter give this spa of yours the flippin' once over!' 'e says. Then ... she says, ''Ear! 'Ear!' she says. She's very fond of all this, this old-fashioned clobber, you know...
Threadbare Survivors. The newborn child (Stephen Joyce) that Joyce wrote of is now 15, and enrolled at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. Baptized a Catholic without his fond grandfather's knowledge, Stephen went to school during the war at Glion, Switzerland. In Zurich last week his father, Giorgio Joyce, and his grandmother, Nora (Joyce's widow), were living in threadbare bleakness, victims of wartime exchange restrictions which still allowed them to receive only ?75 a year from the Joyce estate in London, to which all royalties on the books are paid...
...process of saying goodnight has degenerated," declared Dean Sherman before an appreciative audience, explaining that loose interpretation of the law forced its redefinition. Radcliffe Houses will be no man's land after 10 o'clock on weekdays and 11 o'clock on Sundays, as fond nocturnal farewells become an outdoor sport...
...keep his audience on the edge of their chairs, Caniff, a frustrated actor, has borrowed many a trick of stagecraft. He is a staunch Alfred Hitchcock fan, fond of the director's way of opening a suspenseful sequence with a silent sound track. He has aped the best Hollywood techniques (and some of the worst) by switches from closeups to long shots to trick camera angles-and fadeouts with profiles turned to a corn-tinted sunset. He depends on Leo Ardavany, a neighbor who manages the movie house at nearby Haverstraw, to tip him off when a useful picture...
Smoking, Imbibing of the pleasures barred by conventional training rules, and a year without Coach Ulen's fond tutelage proved too much for a nine-man Alumni swimming squad as they bowed Saturday night to a sleek Varsity outfit...