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...second week in a row. Before the week's end the average was up to 134.54, only 14 points below where it had been before it fell in May with Flanders. Index of last week's market spirits: money was going back into the highest-grade disappointment of recent years, New York Central common (up 11 points), and other more frankly speculative rails...
...little Producer Joseph Pasternak would team her with Fred Astaire-exploded last week, although Shirley, in one of her frequent pranks, had recently paid Pasternak's ace director, Henry Roster, ten cents to make the film. Meantime she is touring California with her mother before entering the eighth grade...
William Joseph Donovan never got past the second grade in school. He bummed around his native Chicago for a while, finally got work as a wagon boy for an express company. At 15 he became an organizer for a tough Chicago teamsters' union. That year (1905) the teamsters put on one of the bloodiest general strikes in Chicago's history. Bill Donovan came out of it a proven labor organizer...
...Examination for exemption from English A, New Lecture Hall. Any Freshmen who did not take the College Board examination in English given in June, 1940, and those who did take it and received a grade of less than 695 but not less than 560 are eligible to take the examination for exemption from English...
...past life passes before him at such times, some strange scenes appeared to Trotsky in his coma: the first trip of nine-year-old Lev Davidovich Bronstein from the farm in Kherson Province to school in Odessa; his first brush with Marxism in the seventh grade in Nikolayev; his conversion to the cause after the woman Vetrova burned herself to death in a prison cell; his first arrest in 1898; prison in Moscow, where he married Alexandra Lvovna; Siberia in 1900; escape to England in 1902, without Alexandra but with a passport forged in the name of Trotsky, which stuck...