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...vertical wind tunnel through which smoke is poured around a suspended plane model, to expose the tricks of air currents causing the dread tailspin. Photographs indicated that, the prime obstacle to recovery from a spin is the "blanketing" of the rudder by the horizontal tail surfaces...
When the four Harvard crews which will entrain for Red Top on Sunday evening, go out for their paddle this afternoon, they will be taking their last spin on the Charles River this season...
...again for singing to flowers. Again he escapes, chases a pretty girl (Rolla France) into the phonograph factory, is herded into line, disrupts the phonograph-assembling routine with his fumbling individualism, finally confronts the phonograph tycoon, his old convict pal, disrupting also his routine. The plot now begins to spin like a pinwheel. Blackmailers, a love interest, the police, a fabulous Magic Park for lovers, a lost suitcase with the tycoon's fortune, make a buoyant arrangement in nonsense, ending with a ceremony to celebrate the factory's wiring for entire mechanization, no humans required. A high wind...
Sinclair Lewis, in Paris, discussed his new book. The heroine, Anne Vickers, "will be a sort of female Babbitt playing a reverse role, but she is not intended as a sarcastic interpretation of that glorious class of American women who help make the wheels of business spin. She will live on Main Street and Dr. Arrowsmith will be her family doctor...
When the University crew goes out today for its last spin on the Charles before entraining for Annapolis, the final line-up, which will probably remain intact for the Navy race on Saturday, will be the same as that which started against Tech last week, with the exception of number 2 position, which will be filled by C. F. Hovey '32 who has been rowing in the Jayvee boat. W. B. Bacon '33 will resume his seat at number 6, where J. W. Peirce '33 has been rowing the last two days...