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Gentlemen: I guess you don't know what it means to wander in a foreign land without TIME. I'll just as soon be in jail. We Americans over here pass it around until it looks like something that has been under the carpet since the Spanish-American War. It brings Home to us and drops it in our laps. HOMER CROV...
...attractive prize will be offered by this department to the person or persons who submit the most reasonable guess as to why the Marx Brothers encumbered themselves with "I'll Say She Is", which reopened last Monday night at the Majestic. The Marxians are so very funny, and the rest of the performance is so extremely dull that, It is difficult to see the music; save as foils. Once the four brothers get under way, however, the complementary portions of the revue are swept along on a tidal wave of applause...
...York Times editorial, quoted in an adjacent column, shows by repeated examples that college graduates do not furnish nine out of every ten leaders in society, it is not to be inferred that this excellent journal has gone over to the opposition. It is safe to hazard the guess that if the New York Times had a son, it would send him to college. What the Times does assert is that Mr. Albert E. Wiggam has played with his figures and got the answer he wanted, but, like Goldberg's famous Bughouse Fables, they don't mean anything...
...eloquence of Lawyer Schultz. But no, said the Justice, there could be no injunction. The editors of the Graphic might well copyright their puzzles, but how could they copyright their answers, when the answers had never been published? Anyone, even the editors of the Bronx Home News, might guess at the answers...
...course the whole thing is a guess but as compared to a previous guess of the same kind made ten years earlier, it shows an increase of 72.2% in the country's dollar worth-an increase from 186 billion dollars to 321 billions...