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Last week there was excitement in the romantic Multigraph family. A merger was planned by which American Multigraph of Cleveland will merge with Addressograph International Corp. of Chicago, by which they will become Addresso-graph-Multigraph Corp. Their range of products will cover complete business printing equipment...
...orders from Director Woodcock not to shoot at motorists' tires-practice which in the past has resulted in fatalities. Uniforms for the accosting agents were suggested to the Director. He discarded that idea chiefly because of the cost. Also last week Director Woodcock showed baffled newshawks a complicated graph compiled from usual and unusual sources, on the Department of Justice's results during its first month (July) in the enforcement field. This revealed that 6,524 arrests had been made by the Bureau, 3,828 of the prisoners being held for trial. Because of justices' vacations...
...expresses his theory mathematically on a graph: the product of X (frequency) times Y (conspicuousness) is some constant N. "We might fill in X and Y with their actual values," he says, "and solve the equation for N: we should undoubtedly find N a number varying infinitesimally from person to person, slightly from dialect to dialect, distinctly from culture to culture, and vastly between the languages of primitive and civilized men. In fact, I believe that an understanding of N will ultimately lead to an understanding of that stuff called Life...
From the impossibility of putting the "frequency-conspicuous" curve of all the various elements of language on the same mathematical graph, he implies that language moves in four dimensions, as psychologists likewise follow Einstein in believing our emotions are four-dimensional...
...this picture was first planned. Florenz Ziegfeld was going to direct it himself. Then it was rumored that Erich von Stroheim had the job. Now J. P. McEvoy and Director Millard Webb have done the story and Irving Berlin, with three others, the music. It is a dull, shaky graph of a department store employe's rise to theatrical fame. Mary Eaton's pretty legs support a corner of the plot, which sags whenever legs are not enough. Rudy Vallée and a technicolor ballet have been worked in for specialties. Best shot: Eddie Cantor...