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...penurious Mrs. Grant was recently ordered to pay $350 a month rent, restrict her use of hotel service to $25 a week. Grumbled she: "I cannot carry on the traditions of the Grant family on a mere $25 a week. ... As Mae West might say, 'They done me wrong.' " In the Manhattan apartment of 30-year-old Pulitzer Prize Dramatist (Men in White) Sidney Kingsley, blonde Actress Doris Dudley (End of Summer), 18-year-old daughter of Radio Theatre Critic Bide Dudley, flounced into the bathroom, shot herself in the breast with a .22 rifle. A suicide note...
...pleasantly conducted Yale matches, again the action of the Athletic Committee might be called unduly hasty. But the fact that Army, Navy, New Hampshire, and Coast Guard have one by one, for reasons specified and varied, finally placed Yale on the black list, indicates that there is something radically wrong with the Eli boxing set-up. Under these conditions it would be a mistake to continue to send boxing teams to New Haven. Next winter, with the seeds of ill-feeling nurtured for a year in Crimson mitts, what is now an isolated case of personal disagreement, revolving around...
...probable content of Senator Steiwers address with his voting record in Congress. Still remembered was big, friendly Steiwer's enigmatic platform when he began his first term as U. S. Senator in 1926: "The safety of American government depends upon loyalty to the fundamental principles of right and wrong...
Stages, scaffolding, a litter of broken plaster and a husky ex-cowboy occupied the small, tall Gallery of Contemporary American Art in the Detroit Arts Institute last week. Occasionally letting out a hearty "goddam" when something went wrong, the ex-cowboy was delicately daubing soft hues on the wet plaster walls, shaping dreamy, feminine figures...
Last week in Scientific Monthly, Biologist William Franklin Dove of the University of Maine showed that Cuvier was wrong. Dr. Dove's own researches had revealed that at birth the horn buds were not attached to the skull but were independent "centres of ossification." Accordingly, he decided to try making a unicorn of a day-old Ayrshire. Flaps of skin containing the horn cores were cut out and the cores were joined in the centre, at the top end of the suture in the bone...