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...raises what he needs, and he couldn't spend 1½ pesos a day on "honest pleasures" if he tried. In town, a bus will take him anywhere for 2?, the best U. S, movies are shown a few weeks late for 8½?, and a good pair of shoes can be purchased at the open market for two pesos. He prefers his own guitar to a caterwauling radio and he wouldn't want an automobile if you gave him one. A car in Mexico is a liability. If he is ill, his good wife who invariably knows...
Early that afternoon in Brussels King Albert, eager for exercise, had slipped into his dressing room and put on an old pair of riding breeches and hobnail boots. His son, Crown Prince Leopold, was where he himself longed to be, at Adelbogen, high in the Swiss Alps. For a passionate Alpinist most of Belgium is as flat as a hand but lusty Albert thought he knew a place. Only a few days earlier the Belgian Cabinet had set aside the cliffs near Marche-les-Dames as a national park. Marche-les-Dames-"The Walk of the Ladies"- got its name...
...MacCracken bringing her husband a pair of pajamas. Mr. Jurney snores. Therefore he and his wife have to occupy separate bed rooms and it was at some discomfort that they managed to put up Mr. MacCracken for the night. Next day Mr. Jurney asked Mr. MacCracken if he would like to take a ride to the Senate Office Building. They drove to the Capitol together, met Mr. Leslie Garnett, U. S. District Attorney to whom Mr. Jurney introduced Mr. Mac-Cracken. Under cover of this distraction, the Sergeant at Arms slipped into Mr. Garnett's automobile and escaped from...
...well as female ("Venus-like Girls! Tarzan-like Men!"). It presents: 30 handsome youngsters picked in promotional beauty contests throughout the U. S. and the British Empire; neat blonde Ida Lupino and muscular Larry ("Buster") Crabbe (Tarzan the Fearless). Lupino and Crabbe are Olympic swimmers. Hired by a pair of shifty rogues (James Gleason, Robert Armstrong) to run a physical culture magazine, they are soon shocked to discover what a crooked venture it really is. Crabbe is so vigorously honest that his employers are glad to get rid of him by giving him an interest in a run-down health...
...entrance lists at Leavitt & Peirce will be held open until six o'clock tonight. All members of the university are invited to participate, the entrance fee being one dollar per pair. The tournament is not official, its sponsors being a group of Dunster House students. Although the winning pair last year competed at Yale, there are no prospects of an intercollegiate match this winter...