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...Radio Drama. Last week the university revealed some of his findings: 1) Children often do have violent physiological reactions to radio programs. 2) Violent action is not the only cause of excitement-small children got a major thrill out of hearing a dog bark in his bath. 3) Biggest thrill of all in one program was the offer of a premium...
...biggest day's trading (3,100,000 shares) on the New York Stock Exchange since Oct. 21, 1937, National Steel rose 42 points, Du Pont 4 points, both reaching new highs for the year, 151¼. Close behind was Bethlehem Steel with a 3¾-point advance. U. S. Steel rose 3¼-points, Chrysler 2½. The New York Times index of 50 stocks made a net gain of 2.52 points, biggest post-election-day advance since the index was started 27 years ago. Two hundred and one stocks hit new 1938 highs...
There are times when the Vagabond cannot write for everyone. This is one such occasion, for tomorrow brings the biggest single athletic event of every Harvard scholastic year--the Yale game. Vag would like to speak now to some of the men on the team--particularly to those who will enter their last gridiron battle tomorrow--the footballers of the Class of 1939. So pardon him, please...
...nice to see our great educational institutions running one of the biggest rackets in the country . . . Football is the milch cow of college athletics." So writes Charles J. Hubbard '24, former Harvard grid star, in an article in the current issue of Liberty entitled "Why Not Pay the Football Players...
...models. Last week, for example, many a New Yorker got free tickets to the Manhattan show on the condition that he fill in a style ballot. Weaver will also muster some of his motor enthusiasts for a personally conducted tour of the show. This week, too. Weaver's biggest customer research opus makes its debut-a slick, 80-page Motorist's Handbook and Buyer's Guide to be distributed to 5,000,000 customers to tell them what they have told GM about their taste in automobiles...