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Broadway at 42nd Street would seem a hermit's haven to those who must suffer and wait in long lines at the Boylston and Widener Reading Rooms. Constantly overflowing with men competing for the few available books on their assigned reading lists, the rooms constitute a continual migraine for both students and faculty. No section man can adequately explain the reading when many of the students have not done the work, and the students are left in a hopeless state of frustration by taking quizzes on subjects they know nothing about. The problem is a very simple one; there...
Died. General Henri Gouraud, 78, oft-wounded, one-armed idol of the Army of France, hero of the bloody Gallipoli campaign, World War I commander of the Fourth Army (which included the 36th and 42nd U.S. divisions), Military Governor of Paris until 1937; in Paris...
...highly respected pictures. They have also launched many a Hollywood "trend": film biography with George Arliss' Disraeli (1929); a new gangster cycle with Little Caesar and Public Enemy (1930-31); social-consciousness movies with I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932); the first big backstage musical, 42nd Street (1933); the first attempt to sound-film Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream...
...42nd Street skyscraper that houses the tabloid New York Daily News, the monster presses were still, resting like exhausted giants from the ordeal of grinding out 4,500,000 fat Sunday newspapers. Upstairs in Ihe city room, a handful of early-trick Newshawks dawdled over Sunday-morning chores. They paused as a telephone buzzed, and stared at the deskman who picked it up. A quiet voice on the wire said, "He died...
...only one point were the delegates nearly unanimous. Careful reporters noted that 41 of them tripped over the coconut mat as they entered Clacton's garish, modernistic Oulton Hall. The 42nd, stepping carefully, was Britain's Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Dalton, who presided over the first of the secret sessions...