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...rank & file. Almost overnight an encampment of some 8.000 men, women & children sprang up in an amusement park on the outskirts of town. It teemed with filth and flies. There was little or no food. One good storm would have devastated its pup tents, lean-tos and bough huts. As a camp, it made the Anacostia bivouac look like a regular Army post. Mayor McCloskey realized he and his city were in a serious predicament...
...When The Bough Breaks. After an absence of more than eight years, Pauline Frederick has returned to the Broadway stage in an unflattering vehicle. On The Silver Cord theme, this play is aimed at the machinations of unwholesome maternal love. Miss Frederick is called upon, in her part as the selfish mother, to frustrate her son's opportunity for adventure in business, to blight his romance with the girl he loves and, ultimately, to lose his slavish unnatural devotion. Not one scrap of her miserably written play rings true...
...becoming apparent that for an increasing number of undergraduates, the four years of university life are chiefly financial investment; the external acknowledgment, the diploma, in its function of "social background" and "vocational recommendation," is rapidly superseding the education itself in point of importance. Hanging from this punky bough is a whole hornet's nest of educational evils, which include, among the more painful stings, "gut-hopping" and the neglecting of natural talents for more practical pursuits and courses of study...
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...York. Samuel Finkler, 25, took his girl friend Sarah Berkowitz into Bronx Park at night to spoon. Hearing the big bough under which they were reclining crack she sprang away, saw Samuel Finkler crushed and killed...