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If figures are correct, almost one-fourth of our national income is spent in recreation. We spend it in hot-dogs, automobiles, movies, road-houses and restless movement; one of the largest items is the two-hour vigil at the shrine of football on autumnal Saturdays. The play we love...
A yellow-jacketed book, In the Reign of Rothstein, appeared. Rothstein-Mathematician of Crime was published serially in a New York daily. Throughout the autumnal mayoralty campaign, candidates aspiring to Mayor Walker's desk filled the newspapers with accusations that Tammany Hall was afraid to prosecute the Rothstein case...
¶In Chicago, beaches, lakeside parks and streets were awash, strewn with rocks and wreckage. Breakwaters crumbled before the unprecedented autumnal surge. Chicagoans fled through the storm from shorefront homes and hotels. Hundreds of feet of concrete boulevards were crumpled. Waves mounting up 30 feet battered a new government lighthouse...
Guy Standing is indeed a lovable Mr. Weatherby, but his seduction in the mountain shack is somewhat repulsive. Autumnal passion is not particularly engrossing except to psychologists and sardonic novelists. Unless it be handled with the utmost finesse, is a questionable theme for light comedy, and in Jenny it is...
Diagnosis. Forecaster Mitchell of the U. S. Weather Bureau spoke of hurricanes. "They are probably gentle little eddies of air at first," he said, "but gather momentum owing to differences in temperature and air pressure until they become gigantic whirls, sucking air toward their central vortices like gargantuan vacuum cleaners...