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...shavers themselves. Careful consideration, however, leads but to one conclusion; owners of electric razors must to all costs read their daily radio programs with great care. Let them learn when Paderewski, Artie Shaw, Bob Benchley, Bea Wain, Information Please, and other necessities of life are due; ten let them rap the daily harvest accordingly...
...means certain that Franklin Roosevelt had not outsmarted the House. Correspondents had a shrewd suspicion that he had asked for more than he wanted, that, so doing, he had deliberately given the House a harmless chance to display independence and, if economy should backfire, to take the rap from constituents -all of which might make Congress more tractable later...
...Tess left the fiat, Mary, Larry and Ward rush to Tony Valcourt's penthouse to have a talk with Tony and Cynthia, having sent Tess Morgan to her apartment. Arriving at the penthouse, they are refused admittance by the butler. . . . If Cynthia gets away, Tess may take the rap for the crime. Can they save her? . . . What will Tess...
...matter who or what was to blame, the man who was last week taking the rap was the Hollywood craftsman. At unwieldy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which has been at sixes & sevens since the death year-and-a-half ago of its one indisputable producer-genius, Irving G. Thalberg, more than 1,000 of the 3,000 studio employes had been dropped from the payroll. At RKO Radio the pruning halted at 250. In the United Artists group, only Producer Walter Wanger was working at top speed. Samuel Goldwyn was temporarily inactive, his corps of laborers laid off; Selznick International, geared...
...being a league game, the Crimson will really be out to win, for it has been many a day since the club took a series from the Eli basketball five, and this is beginning to look like the year to do it. Yale has regularly been taking the rap in league contests, although their recent defeat of Army makes things look much more ominous...