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Meanwhile, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Mrs. Jessie Wallace Jordan, a 51-year-old British-born hairdresser who became a German citizen by marriage, was tried for espionage. Main evidence against Mrs. Jordan was her sketches of certain unidentified County of Fife fortifications (presumably a huge aviation training airdrome at Leuchars, near Dundee, or a submarine base at Rosyth on the Firth of Forth). With 42 Crown witnesses ready to testify against her, Hairdresser Jordan changed her plea to guilty, was sentenced to four years' hard labor. Startling was the connection between this sober bit of Scottish espionage and the slapstick...
...Bartholomew's The Devil Is a Sissy, and the Pat O'Brien-Humphrey Bogart San Quentin. But what gives it a rich and salty flavor of its own is ingredients like the six young toughies from Dead End (Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Bernard Punsley, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell) and a dialogue script that is often spicier than Dead End's. That some day this gang would wind up in a tough cinema reformatory was entirely conceivable. That it would reform them as thoroughly as Crime School does is not so easy to believe...
...spokesman for Mrs. Wilbur K. Jordan, Dean of undergraduates, said yesterday that no "censorship" had been invoked, and expressed the opinion that the H. D. C. had been wanting to get rid of Radcliffe girls for some time...
Research Fellowships to Stefan A. Riesenfeld, of Palo Alto, Calif., LL.B. University of California '37, a candidate for S.J.D. Harvard this June; Loring P. Jordan, Jr. 3L, of Wakefield, Mass., A.B. Dartmouth '35; Seymour J. Rubin., of Chicago Ill., A.B. University of Michigan '35, a candidate for LL.B. Harvard this June; Maxwell S. Isenbergh 3L, of Peekskill, N. Y., A., Cornell '34; Arthur H. Robertson, of London, England, B.C.L. Oxford '37 a candidate for LL.M. Harvard this June; Melvin Cohen, of Chicago, Il., a candidate for J.D. this June at the University of Chicago; Bertha H. Putnam, formerly Professor...
...permit any of our girls to play indecent women," declared Dean Jordan of Radcliffe College to the Harvard Dramatic Club this week. Dean Jordan went on to state that until the obscene parts of the Dramatic Club's proposed production "Cannibal Carnival" were revised Radcliffe girls could not participate...