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...Mississippi Gambler (Universal). When Showboat was finished, Universal had plenty of material left over?pantalettes, clippings of river scenes, Joseph Schildkraut's southern accent, beaver hats, some expensive Mississippi locations. These fragments are here thrown together on a framework involving the inherent nobility of a gambler who, after winning the parish funds from Colonel Blackburn, falls so much in love with the Colonel's daughter (Joan Bennett) that he lets her win them back again. Silliest shot: Miss Bennett hearing of her father's betrayal...
Working like a beaver President Luis strove to avert catastrophe. Timorous coffee brokers announced that the coffee exchanges of Santos and Rio de Janeiro would suspend trading '"indefinitely." Came urgent messages from President Luis. The exchanges reopened. Frenzied coffee speculators begged the President to save the coffee situation by declaring a general moratorium. This he flatly refused to do, patiently explained how ruinous to Brazil's commercial credit such action would be. The result of the week's alarums and pronouncements seemed to leave President Luis, like Atlas, supporting Brazil's top-heavy coffee market...
...dentists found the President in a better mood, they would have been interested, when he smiled, in his teeth. On the left side the upper molars are worn down, presumably by chewing pipes and cigars, to a peculiar slant which helped earn him his campaign sobriquet of "Beaver...
...result of demands of the "House Plan" which require that the Beaver Street laboratory of the Psychology Department be torn down, the department has moved the headquarters of the Psychological Clinic for abnormal and dynamic psychology to new quarters at '62 Plympton Street. An additional laboratory for the department is also in preparation. This will be devoted to animal psychology and is located on the third floor of Boylston Hall...
Through the efforts of the late Dr. Morton Prince '75, four years ago, sufficient money was raised to establish the Psychological Clinic which had been housed until this summer in the laboratory on 19 Beaver Street. Since the site of this laboratory will be required by one of the Houses, arrangements were made during the summer for the removal of the clinic to its present headquarters...