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Such were some of the facts contained in a pamphlet prepared by Walter J. Greenleaf, specialist in Higher Education, issued last week by the U. S. Office of Education. Specialist Greenleaf had queried every one of the 1,462 U. S. colleges and universities on freshman costs, including all kinds of fees, books, supplies, laundry, had compiled the results as "The Cost of Going to College." Among other things he found that...
...years, childless, increasingly incompatible, John and Mary agree to separate. He is a pedestrian publisher and works while she, a rising actress, sleeps. Two years after their separation each falls in love with somebody else, both want a divorce to remarry. John goes to a friendly lawyer, a divorce specialist. He discovers Britain has three sets of divorce laws, one for England, one for Ireland, one for Scotland. Under English law their only recourse is for him to fake an act of adultery, then let his wife's lawyer get the evidence, sue him. (If both John and Mary...
...Century of Progress exhibit of the Chicago Roentgen Ray Society, Dr. Hollis Elmer Potter, Chicago x-ray specialist, last week hung the first full-length, full-size, one-piece x-ray photograph of the complete human body ever put on display (see cut). X-ray technicians heretofore have made composite pictures of the whole body. The Chicago exhibit was the result of a single, one-second exposure to x-rays...
...Conservative Party Leader Mr. Stanley Baldwin as the Empire's acting Premier (TIME, July 2). With Miss Ishbel MacDonald, faithful daughter and housekeeper, the Prime Minister sails this week aboard the Duchess of Richmond from Liverpool to vacation in Canada. According to Dr. L. A. Swann, a London eye specialist attending the American Optometric congress in Toronto last week, "Degeneration of the eye has set in. Both the Prime Minister's eyes have been attacked by glaucoma. Because the eye is unable to throw off its natural fluids it becomes hard through tension. Blindness may result...
Paramount still produces more pictures than any other studio in the U. S.?64 features, 204 shorts. Adolph Zukor, who last week went to Hollywood where Emanuel Cohen, one-time newsreel specialist, is still Paramount's production chief, promised his distributors two more Mae West pictures after her forthcoming It Ain't No Sin. They are called Gentleman's Choice and Me the Queen. Whether or not Marlene Dietrich's vogue survives The Scarlet Empress, finished last April but held for release until the public forgets the queening of Garbo (Queen Christina) and Bergner (Catherine the Great), she will...