Word: 20th
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Former members have gone into widely different fields. Richard Aldrich '25 has become a producer; Kenneth Macgowan '11 has tried his hand at script writing for 20th Century Fox; Robert E. Jones '10 has become a well-known designer and designed and lighted the sets for Paul Robeson's "Othello...
Toronto's General Hospital last week reported its 20th death in four years from sulfa poisoning, three within the last month. So aroused were Toronto doctors that the city's chief coroner held a widely publicized inquest on Victim No. 18, to highlight the dangers of using sulfa without proper medical supervision. From Milwaukee came a similar report: 15 sulfa deaths in the county hospitals in three years. Many another U.S. hospital might have added to the death score from sulfa if it had published its files...
...Keys of the Kingdom (20th Century-Fox), A. J. Cronin's best-selling novel, will use Gary-Cooperish Stage Actor Gregory Peck as the Scottish missionary to China. Father Arthur O'Hara, a genuine missionary, will furnish technical advice. For release this summer...
Buffalo Bill (20th Century-Fox) is Joel McCrea in fringed buckskins. He looks as embarrassed as if, invited to a masquerade, he had turned up and found everyone else in formal dress. In real life Buffalo Bill was a tough, bewildered, showy neurasthenic whose 70-odd years spectacularly illustrated both the magnificence and the decline of the West...
...Sterling and the Dollar are bound together. The question mark in his mind is whether the U.S., through its tariff and currency policies, will in fact help or hinder the growth of such a system. In the 19th Century the Bank of England could go it alone. In the 20th, leadership must come from both sides of the Atlantic...