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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Add Rooseveltiana...
...Consider: temperature 98°, humidity 34%, gives humiture 66. Now assume temperature 34°, humidity 98%, gives humiture 66. I hasten to assure you that "the man on the street" will in no wise feel the same. My best observations so far are: multiply the temperature by 5, add the humidity and divide the sum by 6 to obtain the tempidity...
...Saturday. In this most popular if not the most skillfully made of the Hardy Family series, Mickey Rooney undergoes parallel love affairs with Polly, the true love, and Cynthia, a cooperative redhead at the same time humoring Judy Garland, who is there only to sing. If his facial contortions add up to something less than good acting, Mr. Rooney is nevertheless very funny; and although the Hardy pictures are starting to lose their simplicity and naturalness the lines are still good and the whole result delightful...
...Amateur golf championship, played last week at Oakmont, outside Pittsburgh, most persistent arguments centred around: 1) Defending Champion Johnny Goodman and whether he could win the Amateur for the second year in a row; 2) Atlanta's Charley Yates and whether he could add the U. S. title to the British Amateur title he won last spring; 3) Professional Tennist Ellsworth Vines, onetime U. S. amateur tennis champion, and whether he could reach the final - and thereby duplicate the feat of Mary K. Browne, tennis champion in 1912-13-14, who reached the final of the U. S. women...
...Class of 1942 will be the 297th to graduate. He figures it thus: The first graduating class was the Class of 1642. There were no classes of 1644, 1648, 1672, 1682, and 1688; but there were two in 1653. Consequently there were 55 classes in the 17th century. Add 200 for the 18th and 19th centuries and 41 for the present century which will graduate ahead of 1942. The Freshmen now entering are Harvard's 297th Class...