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...risky, and cellular coffer dams of sheet steel were built to keep the river out of the excavation area. Three weeks ago one of these crumpled and water poured through the leak. The engineers tried vainly to stem the flow with earth, gravel, brush. Then they thought of volcanic ash. When this is moistened it swells- like oatmeal-to 15 times the dry volume, tightly plugging every crack & cranny. Tons of the puffy paste were poured into the breach and the flow of invading water shortly ceased...
Unlucky Freshmen, annually dumped on the ash-heap of circumstances by the House Plan's inability to accomodate all those applying for admission, find a cold eye turned on them when, as Sophomores, they again seek entrance. While the House Representatives express concern for the solitary, doghouse existence of men excluded from the houses, their hands are tied by an undue reverence for the Freshman and the custom of having a third of each class in any one house. But if this pretense is to be dropped and justice administered, upperclassmen in good standing who have tried repeatedly should...
Last week American Records celebrated the opening of Master Records with a party at which Bandleaders Hal Kemp and Paul Ash, Vocalists Baby Rose Marie, Dolly Dawn and Pinky Tomlin were due to appear. Mr. Mills does not permit such relaxations, nor the luxuries of his fantastic suites of offices, to divert his eye from the verities of Broadway. When his son Sidney, breaking in with Mills Music, called up to get Calloway to play a tune he was promoting, Mr. Mills had him turned down cold "to convince him that song-plugging is a tough racket...
With their "ohs!" and "ash!" as he's balanced there...
...that these men were attempting to paint the life around them, instead of duchesses in pearls, goddesses in Greek draperies, or New England valleys in a pink mist was enough to deny them admission to most galleries and for the critics of the day to label them the "Ash-can School," the ''Black Gang" and "Apostles of Ugliness...