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LaBranche & Co. is a firm of "specialists" who, acting for other brokers, keep a record ("book") of orders placed above or below the market. When the market price reaches the prices fixed in the orders, the specialist executes them. Because the specialist thus knows the supply & demand factors better than anyone else, the Stock Exchange has passed very strict rules forbidding the specialist to use this inside information for his own gain. Offenses are called "trading against the book...
...Beta Kappas, in whose learned magazine The American Scholar this description of a future face appeared this week. know Dr. Thomas Hall Shastid of Duluth. as a serious, prodigious eye specialist, lawyer, novelist, translator, editor, inventor, pacifist.* His pastime is to visit zoos with an ophthalmoscope with which he peers into the eyes of fish, birds, snakes and beasts. Doing likewise, remarks he in his Phi Beta Kappa article, "will prove an event in the lives of most scientists. Nor, strange to say, are very many animals averse to the use on their eyes of that instrument of investigation...
...function, which will have to be reinforced and elaborated to meet the pace of modern life. A new frontier for medical advancement has been opened in America; the social and economic field. The depression has pointed out the vast gap between the poor farmer's purse and the metropolitan specialist's price for advice or operation. Scientific treatment in developing from the nightmare practices of early medicine, has also become expensive...
...from James Hagan's stage comedy One Sunday Afternoon. It is a calm, observant little comedy which shows how a man who thinks that he married the wrong girl finds out finally that he married the right one. In it, Gary Cooper, Paramount's No. 1 sex specialist, gives a first-rate performance as a country dentist...
...recovers from drinking poison. Bill marries Letty. When Bill begins misbehaving and Letty falls ill, it is Dr. Watt, not his son Jimmy, grown into a prosperous young surgeon, who saves her life again. His reward for a lifetime as a self-abnegating "country plug" arrives when a specialist from the city, after observing his methods of curing Letty Radford, makes a speech at a medical banquet, calls Dr. Watt a great physician. As Dr. Watt, Lionel Barrymore acts so shrewdly that Katharine Haviland Taylor's lachrymose little story has moments of validity...