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Similarly last month spoke Joseph Aidrich Bursley, dean of students at the University of Michigan. Said he: "Every few days there comes to my office the report of some student who is living in an attic on $1.50 a week, on milk and bread or crackers, with an occasional can of beans. . . . It would be better if they would stay out a year with the hope of earning enough to support themselves decently in school at some future date...
...addition to its ramps and airshafts, it contains a mechanic stupider than most real ones (Guinn Williams), a speakeasy with onyx bar, a suite of offices in which a racketeer (Alan Dinehart) operates with the assistance of a dumb monster (George Rosener) and a paint shop in the attic where purloined vehicles can be made unrecognizable in three and one-quarter minutes. Fast Life (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a flagrantly foolish little picture in which Sandy Norton (William Haines) wins a big speedboat race with his coy fiancee (Madge Evans) sitting beside him and a large crowd cheering, in Avalon...
...building has a main floor and an attic, is built of wood, and is furnished with bunks and cooking equipment sufficient for a large party. It is the most convenient allwinter building to the famous Mt. Washington ski runs, being equidistant from the newly finished two mile Tuckerman's trail, and the Huntington trail. Members of the Mountaineering group will be allowed to lodge free of charge and they may bring guests, who will be charged a small...
...monetary aspect. While it is a mistake to think that booksellers always make a prodigeous profit, fortune may be lurking around who-knows-what corner. I have said that a copy of Incondita would fetch $25,000. I might find one on a bookstall or in an attic next week, or nex year. Or if not that volume, something else of great value...
...Brooklyn, Mary Bronsky. 17, gave birth to a baby boy in a windswept door way, sobbed wildly, fled as passers-by gathered. She was found semiconscious in a nearby attic-bedroom. The hale child was rushed to a nursing home, thrived...