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...well as clever and interesting. John Glidden (Richard Bennett) is a crusty millionaire, infuriated by the avarice and incompetence of the persons who expect to inherit his money. Instead of making a will he decides to distribute his fortune, $1,000,000 at a time, to persons selected at random from the telephone directory. The first million goes to a butter-fingered salesman (Charles Ruggles) in a china store. He buys himself a cane, invites his employer to watch him use it on shelves of tableware. A prostitute (Wynne Gibson) takes a room in an expensive hotel and goes...
...Wood, who is well qualified to express his opinions on the game, having played for three years on the Harvard Varsity and having been named All American quarter back in 1932 treats the subject from the player's point of view. It does not consist of a player's random reminis cences nor is it a technical study of formations but merely Wood's conception of the game...
...centralization of Alumni affairs in Wadsworth House is an encouraging forward step for the largest but least organized body of the University. Hitherto scattered about at random, the main offices of the Alumni, except for the Bulletin and the Directory, which is really a part of the University, are now united in one building. Not only will this be a great convenience for these actively engaged in the offices; it will also simplify any dealings of outsiders with them...
...devious plans to rebuild the German army and possibly restore the monarchy are maturing; there is as yet no serious obstruction in sight. Puffing comfortably on a large pale cigar, he admitted a group of correspondents to his office last week and delivered himself of a few random observations. As everyone knows, smiling General von Schleicher has a high opinion of Republican ex-Chancellor Brüning's character and ability. Privately he has no such regard for his present political ally, bristle-lipped Adolf Hitler. Subtly as the great Metternich whom he so much admires, General von Schleicher...
Denver is a synthetic city. It is off the transcontinental railroad line. The $18,000,000 Moffat Tunnel through the Continental Divide may eventually bring coast-to-coast traffic through Denver, but until it does the city remains at a random spot on the broad bench east of the Continental Divide. The foothills begin ten miles west, the plains region stretches east to the Missouri River. Sixty miles to the south is Pike's Peak, a truncated cone up whose flanks automobiles race every Labor Day. Isolation is a blessing to Denver now that it is grown...