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...storm had begun by pounding over Watling Island in the Bahamas-probably the San Salvador which was Christopher Columbus' first landing place-silencing the Government wireless. At Panacea, Fla. five fishermen were drowned when the deep boiled like a pot. Near Moultrie, Ga. a schoolgirl was killed when she stepped on a storm-whipped live wire. At Dinner Key the wind blew 123 miles per hour at the Pan-American Airways base. Houses crumpled, boats swamped, streets flooded. Part of the metal dome of the State Capitol at Tallahassee was torn...
...Hollywood's sure-fire formula for money-making movies. It has tossed together a bunch of old song favorites, a couple of snappy new tunes, some lavish dance spectacles, a hoofer who can hoof, and a singer who can sing. The result is "Lady Be Good," a sizzling pot-pourri of entertainment which tops anything in its line that has been turned out since Ann Sheridan became the sweetheart of the Harvard Lampoon...
...Pot-paunched Labor Minister Ernest Bevin, backed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and a special committee that studied the question, shucked his recently acquired Carlton Grill manners to argue a blistering affirmative: more & more expert workers must be withdrawn from industry if the high operating efficiency of British aircraft and mechanized vehicles is to be maintained. Bawled Bevin: "Am I entitled to send a man up in a bomber without providing a journeyman to test the bomber and see that it is safe? No! It shall not be on my conscience that I risked a single airman's life...
...University holdings which Treasurer William H. Claflin '00 doesn't like to be reminded of too often, and the Ritz Tower in New York is going to be one of them. The betting around Milk Street is that the sky-scraping Park Avenue hostelry will be dropped into the pot of so-called "special investments," which don't deserve to get into the big pool of Harvard property because of their "not quite respectable" character...
...first floor, the large room was used for elementary chemistry courses, and it was during an experiment in one of these that a student named Charles William Eliot, Harvard's future President, was nearly killed. The professor put some explosive material in an iron pot, stood behind a closet door, and touched it off with a torch fastened on the end of a long pole. The result drove a large piece of the pot past Eliot's arm, and into the back of the wooden bench on which he was sitting...