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...threw open Moscow stores said to be bulging with more than the public could buy and dispatched throughout the world Soviet newsreels of beaming buyers rushing in to obtain meat, butter, caviar, cloth, quilts, rubbers, etc. One scoundrelly speculator was caught last week selling for 40 rubles a pair of gloves she had stood in line to buy from the State for 15 rubles, the purchaser preferring not to spend the day in a queue...
...intervals of six weeks has recently knocked out King Levinsky in one round, Baer in four, Primo Camera in six. Only the clock and calendar, say experts, separate him from the heavyweight championship, since he is scheduled to fight Braddock next September. Meantime he and his managers, a pair of dusky financiers from Detroit and Chicago, plan to eliminate Isadoro Gastanaga in Havana Dec. 29, Charley Retzlaff in Chicago the following month, one-time Champion Max Schmeling in New York City in June. A routine incident in this schedule included the elimination of Paulino Uzcudun at Madison Square Garden last...
...sent its Committee A and Committee A reported that Mr. Jardine apparently believed that Wichita culture was to be found chiefly in the offices of downtown businessmen. In explaining his reasons for dismissing two of the three professors, President Jardine told the committee that, besides being incompetent, the pair failed to make friends among influential Wichitans. The university regarded the third man with disfavor not because he had been to Russia and lectured on his travels but because he had failed to live down the unfavorable reputation thus gained in Wichita...
...courses. On the contrary, secrecy is even maintained among the closest friends. Furtive entrances and exists are made to and from the studio at all times, and by far the busiest hours are around the dusk of the late afternoon. A chance meeting in the studio of a pair of Freshman roommates occasioned no small degree of embarrassment to both parties...
...stage, the Elida Ballet hits a new high in clever and well-directed routines. They can be compared, not unfavorably, to the Rockettes of New York and this weeks sets also deserve high praise. A Mexican singer, whose microphone technique reminds one of a jumping bean and a clever pair of eccentric dancers fill out the bill, which, we regret to say, is not up to the Metropolitan standard...