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...debutante from Boston to win the love of a young man who pretends to be a millionaire. Alice White is not an actress. Alice White is a size-fourteen girl who looks like Clara Bow, but cuter; all eyes and no chin. She loses her bathing suit; she rides a horse for the first time; the rest is pretty stupid...
...placed in Statuary Hall at the Capitol, Washington, whither each State may send the images of its two most distinguished citizens after they have died.* Than the late, great La Follette, no noble Roman ever had a greater passion for justice or a greater vigor in its pur suit. His outward aspect, the material of sculpture, mirrored the temper of the man. He was compact, robust, wiry, alive with energy. His head was squarely, ruggedly shaped, with abundant hair swooping up in a reckless, leonine pompadour. He dressed with what Sculptor Davidson called "careless fastidiousness." Indicative of inward sensitiveness...
President Little thought that all students should be housed on the campus. Several thousand boarded at homes in Ann Arbor. Landladies, foreseeing a loss of income, threatened suit, charged profligacy, wrote irate letters to the Board of Regents. Next year, as Dr. Little planned, a huge women's dormitory will rise on the Michigan campus...
...withdrawal of the suit last week was a complete vindication of the domestic ethics and business practices of Mrs. Wyckoff...
...Memphis, in addition to denouncing racketeering (another organization, the National Alliance of Wholesale Cleaners and Dyers has also been active in the fight on rackets) also worried about price-cutting. Dry cleaning prices vary; in and around Manhattan there is a "standard" price of $1.50 for a man's suit. In many an eastern city there are also "Dollar Cleaners" operating at a $1 price. In the West and Southwest, however price-cutting has reached the slashing stage. There are places where one can have a suit cleaned for 35¢ and two suits cleaned for 36¢. "Regular" dry cleaners feel...