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...Harvard Rifle Club, which was active last year, has thus far been rather upset by the loss of its president, K. R. Ludlam '33. Effort will be made in the near future to get the club in action again...
...straightforward discussion of these topics will involve the making of a few honest statements that are bound to prick a few of the self-righteous and certain to upset these in authority. Dr. Ruthven hardly can be much more than a politician since he must remain in accord with the state board that forced Dr. C. C. Little to resign. It is therefore easy to see how these outspoken and iconoclastic comments might have disturbed his dignity. But he found the right method of combat. He merely withdrew the 900 subscriptions to the daily which the University purchases...
...industry which Tycoon Doherty now enters has been, as a whole, badly upset by Depression. August hotel room and restaurant sales were down 19%, from August 1930, 27.6% from 1928. Room sales were down 17% and restaurant sales down 21%. The room rate was averaging 8%, under last year while the August average rate of occupancy was 54% of capacity against 60%,. In comparing last month with August 1928, Horwath & Horwath, hotel accountants, found that Detroit has suffered the most with a 40% drop, while Cleveland, a big convention city, has suffered the least with a 21% drop...
...much surprised when Sidney Wood Jr., boastful but erratic young Wimbledon champion, was beaten by an unseeded player in the third round nor when Berkeley Bell showed annoyance at having to finish his match with Wilmer Allison on a court outside the stadium. There are at least one upset and one squabble in every tournament...
...their summer jobs with International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. in Manhattan. They said they had lived on Staten Island within their $100-a-month salaries, entertained themselves modestly with occasional visits to cinemas and trips to Coney Island (funpark) until their last month in town. Then a mishap befell them, upset their finances. "We went to a place with some girls," said Fernando, "and ordered wine. We didn't think that would cost much. But the waiter brought champagne, and after that the girls ordered more. The evening cost us $95. American bandits are worse than the American conception...