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Deportment: B. Madeline and Eileen had often been mischievous nuisances. Once Margaret Patton tattled when one of the girls stole money from her mother's apartment. The older girls began feuding with Margaret and her brother, William, who threw a bottle which cut Madeline. Last autumn the older girls' teacher began giving them as much special attention as was possible in the busy public-school life. The girls, too, made an effort, got As in deportment. This term they had slipped back to Bs, but the teacher still had hopes for them...
...their number. Among the guests of honor were white-haired Art Patron Anne Morgan, Novelist Fannie Hurst. Top prize: $200 went to 50-year-old Dorothy Eaton of Petersham, Mass, for her large genre painting Country Auction. Another prize: $100 to 33-year-old Manhattanite Anne Eisner for Autumn Landscape, an earthy, heavily painted view of fields and houses...
...became a Chaplin protegee in the summer of 1941. She fitted into a familiar pattern. Chaplin signed her to a $75-a-week contract, began training her for a part in a projected picture. Two weeks after the contract was signed she became his mistress. Throughout the summer and autumn, Miss Berry testified last week, she visited the ardent actor five or six times a week. By midwinter her visits were down to "maybe three times a week." By late summer of 1942 Chaplin had decided that she was unsuited for his movie. Her contract ended...
After preliminary tests on some 200 inmates of the Ypsilanti (Mich.) State Hospital, a massive test was given last autumn to 12,500 people in eight U.S. areas. Half were vaccinated with small injections of virus inactivated by chemical treatment. Half were "vaccinated" with some phony material. During the recent flu epidemic, out of every five persons in the test who got flu only one had been vaccinated. Only variation from this average was California where, Dr. Francis says, "a number of factors" may have thrown the figures...
Author George Sessions Perry has served a dish of Hackberries before in a moving, serious novel called Hold Autumn in Your Hand. Hackberry Cavalier is more of a side dish-17 rollicking, frivolous stories (mostly reprinted from the Satevepost and other magazines) crammed with action and built around romance as soft as a two-minute egg. Readers who like their romance that way will like Author Perry's staggering galaxy of buxom, cherry-cheeked girls...