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Cambridge, always a community infested with beggars, deserving or otherwise, has in this particular taken a decided turn for the worse during the depression. To the company of the old lady with the remarkably heavy bundle have joined themselves amateurs of all descriptions, young and old, tough and tender, sober and heary, but with the one symbol of their Freemasonry, the refrain "Could jalemme have a dime for a cuppa coffee Mister?" which of these poor wretches are deserving are merely down on their luck, and which are moochers, beggars pure and simple, the casual passerby can hardly determine...
Defeat did not completely crush the sober spirits of the plump, brown little man whose grandmother was a Kaw princess. He got his first taste of vice-presidential privacy when, morning after election, he alighted from the Santa Fe's crack train, The Chief, in Chicago and was ignored by two newshawks and three cameramen sent to the station to cover Cinemactress Joan Bennett's arrival on the same train. Back in Washington he put on a brave smile and went about his business as usual. After his first call on his unlucky running mate at the White...
...Saturday Review of Literature quotes Charles Francis Adams's words to the effect that Boston society is "a boy-and-girl institution," and adds his famous pronouncement: "I have tried Boston socially on all sides; I have summered it and wintered it, tried it drunk and tried it sober; there's nothing in it--save Boston." The Review explains that "the boy-and-girl quality of society in Boston is of course due to the proximity of Harvard College." It comes always as something of a shock when we are given the giftie to see oursels as others...
...process by which Harvard came to be such an important adjunct to the existence and happiness of nearby social lights was probably a complicated one, but in the end it all comes down to economics, to the necessarily large import trade in eligible males, drunk or sober. Having suffered the drain of this trade for many years, having been fed off the fat of the filled land, having danced to expensive orchestras night after night, Harvard is still a bit prone to echo ungratefully Adams' sentiments; to decide, in the gray awakening after a champagne coming...
Stuart Peabody, sober manager of sales & distribution analysis for Borden Co. (dairy products), was elected president of Association of National Advertisers at its convention in Atlantic City. Convention keynotes: 35% of members will increase advertising next year, 22% will reduce it; quality of circulation is more important to advertisers than quantity; cheap, misleading advertising hurts all advertising...