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...Here," the grave young bride followed the procession 250 ft. up an aisle banked in white chrysanthemums and Japanese pink lilies. Facing Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick and a chancel hedged with tall cypress trees, boxwood and more chrysanthemums, Groom Rockefeller ended the ceremony with the unusual words, "With this ring I thee wed and promise thee a husband's protection and care." The bride wore a short veil, severe gown, long train; she carried a bouquet of white pansies and white orchids with mauve centres; the bridesmaids wore short veils instead of hats. Best man: Brother Nelson Aldrich. Ushers: groom...
These were some of the national figures who crowded upon the Democratic stage in the closing days of the campaign. Before the political footlights they were all singing the same song, the chorus of which was: "Turn Hoover out! Give us a Change!" They made the land ring with their denunciations of the G. O. P., often forgot to pay more than perfunctory tribute to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the production's hero whom they were all straining to put into the White House...
...Petrolle: he normally fights at 140 lb., had to take off eight pounds in eleven days to make the limit (135 lb.). Canzoneri soon discovered the result. Cool and chipper, an 8-to-5 favorite, he brushed away Petrolle's usually lethal right, danced briskly around the ring peppering quick little punches at Petrolle's head. As Petrolle weakened with fatigue, Canzoneri exhibited bravado. He dropped his hands and stuck out his jaw, moving it just in time to make his opponent miss. Petrolle won the seventh round and shook Canzoneri with a desperate right in the 15th...
NOBODY STARVES-Catharine Brody- Longmans, Green ($2).* No proletarian, no Communist, nobody has yet written a first-class proletarian novel. Nearest so far is John Dos Passos' The 42nd Parallel. Nobody Starves starts out as though it might ring a new bull's-eye but it turns out to be just another ricochet. Though proletarian authors and capitalist critics would never agree on what makes a good novel, even a proletarian would want a novel to be more than a case history. Nobody Starves is a painstaking, truthful-sounding case history...
...still possible for the Undergraduate, but no longer feasible; a jester is not to be trusted with the salt. Arthur was in, of, and for the bowels of Lampy, but his Einstein united the venerable magazine, too well. Year by year Plympton street observers have heard the dinner boll ring, and observed the Jester and his crow grow fatter and fatter on Arthur's food, till the bright sparklings of pristine wit grow don and failed, overlaid with the thick roll of fleshy matter...