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...winter sports and all out-of-door activity in general were not destined to remain for long the laughing stock of the college. The popularity of the new sport of skiing grew at an amazing rate. Soon there was scarcely a man in college without his pair of skis, and the highways and byways around Hanover were all given over to the demands of this new sport. Several different kinds of skis appeared, old too straps gave place to daredevil harnesses, and "telemark" and "christiana" turns became topics of general discussion. It is said that the college had never fallen...
...dependent wives to luxurious credit buying, Author Clarence Budington Kelland contested a suit brought against him by a Manhattan gownshop for bills of $3,313 incurred by his wife. Said he: "I allege that my financial condition at no time would justify a characterization of hose at $6.50 a pair, a white Panama hat at $40, cloth coat at $420, dresses at $225 and $250, and perfumery at $25 or $15, as necessaries for my wife." Ill lay: Mrs- John Work Garrett, of bronchial influenza, in Baltimore; Charles Spencer Chaplin, of food poisoning, in Hollywood; Dr, Rolla Eugene Dyer, typhus...
...scandal sheet editor who is part of her past. They operate to defer the marriage until the editor is found dead and Ben Lyon is arrested for the murder. When this mistake has been corrected and all the tentacles of the octopus city have finally been disengaged, the happy pair, trying to be respectively playful and poignant, go off to get married...
...auditorium is built on the European plan. It seats 3,285, one-third again as many as the Paris Opera, but 200 less than the Chicago house, 500 less than the Metropolitan. Scalpers are getting $100 a pair for tickets, a fact which greatly delights Impresario Gaetano Merola, for last spring his committee was hesitant about putting on the 1932 season. After nine years' experience with Merola they should have known better than to hesitate...
...Louis the Citizens' Committee Clothing Bureau was given many an old pair of knickers for the poor but no golf stockings. The Bureau appealed for golf stockings...