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...White House. So far as most of the U. S. was concerned, the President's real birthday party was divided into some 7,000 parts, scattered in some 5,000 U. S. cities and towns, attended by an estimated 5,000,000 guests and yielding a net profit of over...
...Mabel's Room}. Mrs. Magraw found, however, that she could sell only two $100 tickets, to herself and her husband. So she refused to wear her tiara, did not use her gold plates, filled her table at $7.50 a head. The first Presidential birthday ball (1934) netted $1,015,000. The second (1935) netted $1,071,000. The third last week was expected to net anywhere up to $1,500,000. In fine fettle therefore was the President when he broke off his party with the Cuff-Links Gang, went to his microphone and thanked...
...When lucidly emotional he writes an angry Letter to a Policeman in Kansas City. 3) When not making experimental "statements," he hymns the Revolution. 4) He knows when he has created such a mighty line as We hear the dark curve of eternity go coughing down the hills. Net result of these clues: the no-longer-so-nervous reader forms the opinion that Kenneth Patchen is a poeticule. Twelve years ago Nathalia Crane was a child prodigy. Only daughter of an unremarkable Brooklyn couple, she published her first book of "poetry" (The Janitor's Boy) when...
...chase in the classic Keystone tradition, starting when the racketeers, dressed in policemen's uniforms, pursue Eddie Pink around a roller coaster, and ending when Eddie and his Greek bodyguard (Parkya-karkus) find themselves trapped in a captive balloon. Eddie escapes by falling into an acrobats' net...
...over a slowing of the business pace. A December increase in world copper stocks, breaking a year-old trend, was eyed suspiciously. The automobile industry came in for a few black looks (see p. 52). And for the first time in a month, the stockmarket failed to show a net gain for the week...