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...Says:" and "Ford Says:" they had their daily say. They addressed each other as "my friend next door," "my fellow columnist." Candidate Ford had need of more ingenuity than his opponent in conducting his column. Not being the incumbent, he could not fill space by telling how he helped perform such municipal miracles as supplying "230 million gallons of pure water" daily to Los Angeles. Columnist Ford frequently ended each column with a direct question. Sample...
Professor Williams' conscientious method of presenting every side of all controversial questions in his Money and Banking courses is well known and appreciated. His practical point of view and balanced attitude on questions over which it is easy to become rabid, will help him to perform to perfection his new functions as Dean of the School of Public Administration. The President and Fellows of Harvard are to be congratulated on their outstanding choice...
...took the little mare for a workout. They had just started down the bridle path in Flushing's Kissena Park when suddenly Nightingale reared, pawed the air, flopped down in the path. Scared June Ebdom kited back to the stables. "Frenchy" Loudoux sped up just in time to perform a few midwifely duties for Nightingale, before a knot of gaping WPA workers. In three minutes a spindly colt was sprawled on the grass beside her. Rallying quickly, the mare walked to the stables with her foal following in a rumble seat. Loudoux swore that he had no suspicion...
...experience on programs like Lucky Strike. Show Boat and THE MARCH OF TIME. After Anthony Adverse, Bobby Mauch was cast in Penrod & Sam. Again he and Billy took turns acting and. standing-in. When Warners drew up a new contract, Mrs. Mauch refused to let one son perform as stand-in for the other on the ground that it might give him an inferiority complex. When studio executives demurred, Mrs. Mauch threatened to let Warners keep one twin, sign the other with a rival studio...
Huapala is the Hawaiian word for a favorite orange blossom. It is what Hawaiians call their sweethearts. It is also what they call Vivienne Mader, a young lady from Brooklyn who can perform the graceful native dances with strict accuracy. Vivienne Mader first visited Hawaii in 1929. Elderly Helen Desha Beamer, famed native dancer, taught her hula along with her own grandchildren. All over Hawaii Miss Mader has been a sensation. The late Princess Elizabeth Kalanianaole acclaimed her. She has danced throughout the U. S. and last week in Manhattan's Town Hall. Brooklyn's Huapala gave...