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...Yard was the scene of a crime yesterday when Private Charles Neubauer, stationed at Fort Devens, was attacked by two erstwhile boon companions while walking near the Johnson Gate. Neubauer reported to the Cambridge police that his attackers had taken his leave card and three dollars...
Jekyll and Hyde was an instant bestseller and a boon to hundreds of sermon-seeking clerics. Richard Mansfield read it and induced his friend Thomas Russell Sullivan to adapt the "shilling shocker" for the stage. He played it in London and all over the U.S. until he died 20 years later. Two notable film versions of the play were made: one by John Barrymore in 1920-looking like a fur cap-the other by Fredric March-looking like Gargantua-in 1931. Both cinemactors played it successfully as pure horror, without fretting over the psychological implications...
...courts, this was the first one to be formally renounced. The President made it clear that he had not been responsible for the mistake in the first place. Retail merchants had wanted the date of Thanksgiving set a week ahead to lengthen the shopping season before Christmas; the expected boon to trade had not materialized; the changed date had been an experiment and the experiment had not worked. But at this point, said Mr. Sullivan, "there was encountered an often-ignored condition, the tendency of mistakes to take root and become permanent. Manufacturers of calendars print their wares a year...
...Premier but also Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Interior, the Navy, and Propaganda and Information-and by Constitutional Act he stands in succession to the Marshal himself. Under these titles and perquisites he is a neat French edition of the able, scheming, ruthless personality-type which has been a boon to Fascism wherever it has risen...
...N.Y.A. may well be a boon to the University, especially in the future. With private endowments on the decrease, the $80,000 a year which would come from N.Y.A. for use in the University, would be very necessary. Last year the University ended with a slight deficit...