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...Freshmen the following year, who hand them down to the House teams, who throw them away. As the leaves begin to fall and the air becomes crisp, the House teams will charge into their plays with elbows protruding from their sleeves, and shoes fit only for the ash barrel...
Concentration of gold (if any) in horsetail ash will be far higher than in the soil it sprouted from. Hence it is practical in some cases to harvest and replant horsetail weed over low-grade surface ore fields rather than mine them. And seed selection may breed a still more efficient horsetail. At present a ton of horsetail from low-grade gold fields will yield as much as 4½ oz. of gold, worth $157.50. Value of a ton of good timothy...
...Ash-blond, store-clerkish, 34-year-old Phil Dike, son of a California real-estate promoter, started his art career by imitating his grandmother, who used to paint reproductions of picture postcards. At 21, he won a medal in a local watercolor exhibition, shipped off to Manhattan, where he studied with oldtime U. S. Realist George Luks. After a spell in Paris and Italy, mostly sitting in cafés and talking, Dike returned to Southern California, settled down to teaching...
...small, plain, ash-blonde girl, Betty resembles anything but a movie siren. But she makes the most of her looks, has developed a technique well-suited to the camera. Her eyes are her principal dramatic weapon, and she can make a raised or lowered eyelid as articulate as a sweeping gesture. She rarely cracks her poker face, and this frozen countenance subtracts several years from her appearance. It also makes her look as if she were hiding some painful mental torture. Said one friend: "Until you get to know her, you think...
Ordeal By Egg. In Detroit, plump divorcee Doris La Roue, 31, RFC employe, pleaded guilty to tossing a metal wastebasket, a telephone book, an ash tray and other furniture oddments from an 18th story window during a downtown Willkie parade. Said Miss La Roue, denounced by the President, and straightway discharged from her job: "Something came over me." Her victim, Miss Betty Wilson, got twelve stitches in her head, flowers, national sympathy...