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HELEN OF TROY, NEW YORK?A musical comedy which suffered much from public overconfidence in the authors (George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly, creators of Merton of the Movies). It turned out to be just a real good show. The normal reaction: " Yes, it's good; but it ought to be so much better...
...things which that boy would like to do. The wandering Patagonian musing on the ruins of Brooklyn Bridge in the year 3,000 could reconstruct every external of our present life and civilization from this series of books, as well as most of our ideals. He would think our normal life a little more exciting than it is, but that...
...rigorous clinical experiments. Insulin has in less than one year gained the complete approval of the medical profession. It is not, however, a permanent cure, and must be administered hypodermically at regular intervals, perhaps throughout the lifetime of the patient, in order to offset the lack of the normal internal secretion of the pancreas, which prevents diabetes...
...feet and showed other signs of the extreme cold they were experiencing-at this altitude also telephone conversation became impossible, sound being scarcely transmissible in the rarefied air. The "flight" continued to 8,500 meters and a temperature of 30 degrees below zero centigrade. After a gradual return to normal ground conditions, the aviators stepped out smiling. Other men may not stand the test so well, and this highly scientific work may serve a most useful purpose in the selection of flying personnel...
Since the normal methods of christening seem not wholly proper when applied to a golf course, the Olympia Country Club, Chicago, will open its newest course in a manner at once fitting and unique. They propose to present an aeroplane golf match. Two flyers will drop balls from the air as near the hole as possible. Then their team representatives on the greens will hole out the aerial approaches with their putters. The occasion marks the opening of the fourth eighteen at Olympia, making it the largest club in the world...