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...hour before midnight the Akron was being buffeted severely by a thunderstorm. Bos'n's Mate Deal went about his business of taking ballast readings, carrying out ominous orders to shift ballast and fuel forward. At his next bit of testimony the committeemen hitched forward in their chairs...
...which featured the famed cubist A Nude Descending the Staircase. Her fourth and current husband, full-blooded Taos Indian Tony Luhan, she met when he was acting as model for her third, Painter Maurice Sterne. Born into Buffalo society, she has always had the money, friends and inclination to shift her sphere of influence where she would. As readers of her first book, Lorenzo in Taos, may remember, her influence has not always been appreciated; but that time, Authoress Luhan implies, Greek (D. H. Lawrence) met Greek (herself). Long at work on her Intimate Memories, she has now published...
...Museum of Natural History's free classes on Saturdays, lives chiefly on free lunches at his high school. Just before he won his $100 last week, Artis' unemployed brother with whom he has been living was forced to put him out on the streets to shift for himself...
...Author, in spite of his knowing look and loss of hair, is only 28. After graduation from high school in Chicago he worked at various jobs besides dishwashing: factory hand, salesman, jewelry clerk, songwriter, night shift at the post office. The last job he took to find out "where the hell I was heading for. . . . The dead flow of days and nights finally straightened me out and on the day I was notified I was about to be promoted to a regular clerkship with increased wages, I resigned right away and left town the next morning." Since then...
...stop-gap King Carol turned to a mediocre Peasant Party politician, M. Alexander Vaida-Voevod, who served as Premier for a time last year, commanded him to form a Cabinet. To outsiders chief interest in this Rumanian shift lay in the fact that M. Vaida-Voevod. when last Premier, nearly signed a non-aggression pact with Rumania's long-standing foe, the Soviet union. With this pact negotiated-lying on the table, so to speak- Moscow cocked a keen, expectant eye on Bucharest...