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Every year for more than a decade they have grossed an average of $75,000,000. They took in exactly $75,000,000 in 1919. Eight years later when waistlines were low and the tube dress and boyish ngun seemed to have eliminated the corset tor ever, the total gross was $77,000,000. And so much has happened to corsets in the last three years that corset men are willing to estimate 1934 gross sales at near...
When Mr. Fuchs developed the x-ray film he discovered that his model held her bobbed hair in place with metal hairpins, her stockings with metal clasps. Her skeleton is boyish-broad shoulders, narrow hips, big lungs and heart. Her only trouble, and that not yet serious, appears to be a sagging colon...
...were familiar-Anne Govednik of Chisolm, Minn., muscular and bright-eyed, who held the U. S. outdoor record for the 100-yd. breast stroke; Dorothy Poynton. a platinum blonde from Los Angeles with a wide, toothy smile and a penchant for fancy bathing suits; tiny Katharine ("Minnow") Rawls, the boyish freckle-face from Miami Beach who won her first U. S. championship in 1931, when she was 13. From four nights of splashing and thrashing in the Lake Shore pool there emerged last week ten national indoor championships and two world's records. Individual titles: 300-yd. medley - Katherine...
...National vice president, he was first nominated by the trustees for the requisite period of three weeks. After he was made a trustee, his fellow trustees solemnly elected him president in 1931. The stockholders have no voice in elections and the trustees are a self-perpetuating body. Today under boyish, affable President Traphagen Bank of New York with $151,-000.000 in resources is not a big bank as Manhattan banks go, but it commands enormous respect for its conservative sagacity. The only merger in its history was with New York Life Insurance & Trust Co. in 1922. Nearly a century...
...Last spring trustees of Roxbury (Mass.) Latin School were on the hunt for a new headmaster. They decided to inspect Alumnus James Bryant Conant, invited him out for a speech. Professor Conant went, spoke. Roxbury trustees looked, listened, decided that Professor Conant, reserved, stiff-bodied, boyish-looking, with no jot of showmanship, no trace of "Harvard accent," definitely would not do. Few weeks later Professor Conant was elected president of Harvard...