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...Germ of the Merchandise Mart idea originated some 30 years ago when Marshall Field's was young and Marshall Field was running it. In 1929, Chairman James Simpson found that Marshall Field & Co.'s wholesale department needed new quarters. He decided to put up a building which would house not only Marshall Field but many another manufacturer and wholesaler, would be another State Street in its concentration of buyers & sellers. Getting from the Chicago & North Western Ry. a tract of land along the Chicago River, he built the Merchandise Mart. It is two blocks long and a block...
Stark Young's "So Red The Rose" contains the germ of a truly dramatic idea, and the sensitive adaptation by Sherwood Anderson and Lawrence Stallings makes the most of it. The scene is laid in Missouri during the Civil War, where we find Randolph Scott in the role of the forerunner to the modern conscientious objector. He "likes to see things grow," and hates destruction. His mature and civilized ideology run counter to the inflamed and destructive passions of the times. Consequently he is socially ostracized, is called a coward by his beloved cousin (Margaret Sullavan), and is torn...
...issued, but his fellow members of Mexico's ruling National Revolutionary Party were already eagerly discussing a temporary President while Cardenas took a long rest somewhere out of Mexico. Boning up on Malta fever. Cardenas' enemies found that it is properly called undulant fever, and that its germ, the Micrococcus melitensis, can be got from drinking raw milk or even from patting diseased cattle. Chances against Cardenas dying of it were 50-to-1 but he might be sick with it for from four months to two years, and there was nothing much to be done about...
...Rose," playing this week at the Metropolitan, is a picture that is distinctly heartening to one who has begun to envision a complete relapse, if not collapse, of Hollywood production. Stark Young's book of the same name, contained the germ of a truly dramatic idea, and the sensitive adaptation by Sherwood Anderson and Laurence Stallings made the most of it. The scene is laid in Missouri during the Civil War, where we find Randolph Scott in the role of the forerunner to the modern conscientious objector. He "likes to see things grow," and hates destruction. His mature and civilized...
...time the true nature of the action of bulky food in the intestines has ever been demonstrated," claimed Drs. William Harwood Olmsted, 48, & Ray D. Williams of St. Louis, in telling why they fed three medical students such bulky foods as carrots, cabbage, peas, wheat bran, alfalfa leaf, corn germ meal, cotton seed meal, sugar beet pulp, cellulose flour and agar agar. How do such bulky foods make the bowels move? Drs. Olmsted & Williams decided: "The sum and substance of this physiological experiment goes to prove that the so-called 'bulk' of the human diet is not inert...