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Charles T. Copeland, '82, professor emeritus, revealed himself a budding young poet yesterday, when he presented to the Union a copy of the Old Farmer's Almanac containing a line...
Eleven years ago Savo's baggy clothes and shuffling gait began to be seen in such revues as Ritz Revue, Almanac, Earl Carroll's Vanities. Then five years ago Jimmy Savo dropped out of sight. Suddenly last year he popped up again. Almost every month his squinty eyes, bangs and button nose could be found in some glossy smart-chart because Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur were featuring him in a much-publicized cinema-which has yet to be released. That was the signal for Manhattan literati and humorists to "discover" in Jimmy Savo a new Charlie Chaplin. Even...
...World's Almanac has at last a competitor in this register of the vital statistics of the Universe. Waterfalls, steamships, bridges, and the dimensions of the solar system are all listed in the front of the book with numerous other tables of interesting or prominent points which are usually neglected in map-editing...
...most anxious for the "pink slip" law's repeal last week was one whom, as a taxpayer, it could not embarrass. Anyone may turn to a World Almanac, learn that the U. S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue gets $10,000 a year. But Commissioner Guy Tresillian Helvering knows that the job of compiling the pink slips would put a tremendous extra burden on his Bureau, cost the Government some...
...earmuffs and plug hat, he impersonates a sly dizzard who signs on as driver of the Sarsey Sal. Fortune is not a mule driver by trade. He prefers gambling and his various winnings in kind enable him to embark on such careers as the ministry, dentistry, photography and almanac salesmanship as the play progresses...