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...following officers were elected on the Advocate: John J. Slocum '36, president; John A. Strauss '36, Pegasus; James L. LeB. Boyle, 2nd '36, secretary; Robert S. Chafee '36, treasurer; Gerard J. Piel '37, business manager. Those added from the Critic board were Charles R. Cherington '35, John P. Coolidge '36, George L. Haskins '35, and Henry V. Poor...
Manhattan Melodrama (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) opens spectacularly with the General Slocum disaster out of which are tossed two orphaned boys into Manhattan's East Side. One is studious while the other shoots craps. Years later the student has become district attorney, the crapshooter a top-money gambler. If Jim Wade (William Powell) is straight as a die, Blackie Gallagher (Clark Gable) is crooked as his own dice. Gallagher's sleek mistress (Myrna Loy) loves him honestly, leaves him when he refuses to make her an honest woman. In Harlem's Cotton Club she falls in love with...
...dean of police reporters for the New York City News Association (TIME, Feb. 26); of a heart attack following pleurisy; in Manhattan. A "district" man, he telephoned his stories to rewrite men, reported among others such famed incidents as the shooting of Stanford White, the Nan Patterson case, the Slocum disaster...
...monotony Author La Farge frequently varies the metre, not always with happy effect. His easy narrative blank verse, with no straining after mighty lines, needs no such purplish patching. Close to prose, his verse is acclimatized to the salty New England accent: "Gracious to dearie me!" cried old Mrs. Slocum, "Confound this floor, by guy, I most to fell." "What's the matter, Ma?" called a voice from the darkness. "Mighty near bust my toe off's what's the matter. Told that boy a dozen times if I told him Once that he'd ought...
...following telegram was received by the CRIMSON from Thomas W. Slocum '90 in answer to a request for a statement of his stand on football eligibility...