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Overjoyed Harvard students are in the position of Adam and Eve when the bank foreclosed on Eden, because, even if the two-week vacation is rain from heaven, it seems to be given for this year only. But, being accustomed to such a paradise of leisure, Harvard men will not permit it to be taken away again. The University has taken a step in the right direction; its next must be to make a generous Christmas vacation a permanent part of the schedule...
...Knox has been published. For the facts herewith, TIME is indebted to FORTUNE, which has prepared a full account of Mr. Knox which will be published in its November issue. *Inference: Herbert Hoover now gets his suits for $38.89 *The measure of a man's character at this two-week party is his ability to take any amount of merciless ribbing, and the onetime Chief Executive was generally conceded to have stood up very well when a tipsy Reveler leaned across a table and asked him: "Has anybody ever told you how much you look like that . Herbert Hoover...
...morning Mr, Aken unlocked a side door, leading from his office to a corridor, to admit his wife with a razor, waiters with food. Newshawks lounged in the outer office, taking periodic statements from Mr. Puffer. Pending a court decision, it-was beginning to look like a two-week siege when, shortly after 5 p. m., nine men strode into the office. One of them unwrapped a sledge hammer, battered down the door...
...Kansas City, saying, "Mother-in-law jokes annoy me; I like all my in-laws," Dr. Thomas Richmond took all his 26 kin by marriage on a two-week holiday trip to Colorado, all expenses paid, in an 18-passenger bus. two automobiles and a truck...
...quarter horsepower electric motor was clutched. After Mr. Giragossian ran the little motor two weeks, the flywheel turned so fast that a braking force of 150 horsepower was necessary to stop it. The 150 h. p. merely represented the accumulated energy of one-quarter horsepower applied over a two-week period. When it was discovered that Mr. Giragossian had made use of a "time-lever," he was told to get out of the halls of Congress until he could prove that he was the "first and original discoverer or inventor." Last February his good friend, Representative Clarence John McLeod...