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...unusual glut of expensive motion pictures thrust forth by Hollywood in recent weeks,* cinemaudiences probably have the California tax collector to thank. For all film, raw or exposed, on Hollywood shelves when the assessors make their annual visits on March's first Monday, the studios are taxed. The way to beat the tax is to empty the shelves. When the assessors made their rounds this week, most cupboards were bare. But at luckless Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the vast amount of film necessary for Norma Shearer's Marie Antoinette was still in stock, the picture only half completed...
...pound division is held down by Louis Ach, a Junior, who won against Springfield and Penn but lost other matches. His place was taken early in the year by Sophomore Lou Daily, raw and inexperienced but determined. Ach has progressed rapidly during the last year and may gain honors as a Senior...
Charles Archibald Tompkins, a child specialist who had used pectin for infantile diarrhea, got permission to apply Miss Haynes's pectin solution to the child's raw flesh. The child recovered in a few weeks, regaining entire use of his foot. Said Miss Haynes last week: "The pectin solution acts not only as a killer of organisms and bacteria, but stimulates the growth of tissue. It also has been successfully used on varicose ulcers...
...week wears on, a rumble like distant thunder comes from three soundproofed rooms where nine teletype machines (automatic typewriters) keep up a never-ending thump, thump, thump. Seven machines supply the incoming raw material: press dispatches from A.P. & U.P., telegrams from TIME correspondents...
...raw material of history keeps pouring...