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...sophisticated treatment. An example is the story of the rise & fall of starched collars as reflected in the glorious reign and ignominious fate of the Arrow Collar Man -"a national idol who never lived." A chart showing the tumble of starched collar sales from 1919 (the advent of the soft shirt) is surrounded by colored reproductions of Artist Joseph Christian Leyen-decker's unbelievably handsome creation at critical stages of his career from the "merry Oldsmobiling" days of 1907 to the present. Captions tell the story...
Last week in a talk to the university and freshman track candidates, Dr. Kennedy referred to the undergraduates at Princeton as "smoothies", asserting that successful athletics depend upon the desire of the undergraduates to sacrifice soft living, and devote their efforts toward athletic endeavor. The current "smoothie" complex he holds directly responsible for "Princeton's disgraceful sports record of the past few years...
...came a noise like an explosion and cries for help. Faulkner ran out to the beach, roused neighboring fishermen. In the darkness they could see nothing; but again came the anguished shouts from the bay. The tide was out. For two miles from the beach stretched a sea of soft red mud on which no man could walk. For two hours the shouts could be heard while the watchers waited for the tide to rise. Just as a boat was floated, the shouts died away. For an hour the rescue party searched the bay, then had to run for shore...
Hannington. In his little Bloomsbury office last week sat one Wal Hannington, organizer of the National Unemployed Workers' Movement, who claimed credit for fomenting these, the most serious British riots since 1921. Communist Wal Hannington, frank proponent of violence, is a hard-muscled, soft-spoken young man who dresses extremely neatly, wears tortoise shell glasses and serves tea to teatime visitors. Without hesitation he explained how some of last week's British riots were organized by his scouts (not Boy Scouts) scrawling directions on the sidewalks, how the N. U. W. M. fooled the police by starting false...
...Harding's most impressive qualification as a cinemactress is not her hair, which appears almost ivory-colored in photographs and which she wears in an extraordinary style, but her voice. Its soft, low timbre and sympathetic intonations survive almost perfectly the trying process of mechanical reproduction. Cinemactress Harding is glad she worked as a private secretary in the Manhattan offices of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. She trained herself to enunciate perfectly so that dictaphone records of letters which she relayed to typists would not, like those of her colleagues, be blurred and unintelligible. She gave...