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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Cornell offered a little spring instruction in rugby, the sport could be used on the fall schedule instead of touch football. Most intramural athletes would prefer to play a real game, even an unfamiliar one, than one of illegitimate origin and uncertain rules. --Cornell...
Those who prefer anecdotes have only to buy Clémenceau,? the new biography by his onetime secretary Jean Martet, which was included last week in the list of U.S. non-fiction best sellers. But minds strong enough to enjoy a draught of Clémenceau, grim, tremendous, stern and undiluted, will prefer Grandeur et Misere to anecdotes...
...back on him. For weeks at a time he can only sleep upright in a chair, his great grey head resting on his arms. According to all the laws of medicine he should have died a year ago. Between attacks he continues to paint, portraits now. Modern critics, incidentally, prefer these to his murals. His peacocks, sharks, panthers and zebras were magnificently alive, but there were often too many of them on a screen. His portraits are just as vital, just as colorful, but since he can only work for an hour and a half at a time, they have...
...Sept. 9). For homes in the medium income brackets, specially constructed bars are purchasable at about $200. Last week the Woodworkers' Guild, No. 103 Lafayette St., Manhattan, reasoning that liquor drinking also occurs in homes at the bottom of the income scale, and that poor people might also prefer to imbibe in stylish and fashionable surroundings, offered such drinkers a collapsible bar with a real brass rail...
...gallery gods are dying. People who used to sit in the balconies at the Theatre, now prefer, at the same expense, to occupy the best seats in the gaudy shrines of Cinema. How to fill the emptying baloconies of Broadway's legitimate houses is a troublesome question to theatre managers...