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...truly old hands. Tex Clark and Dizzy Davis are the two chief pilots, experienced filers of the old school, who refuse to submit to the new efficiency and demand a bit of fun now and then even if the mail or passengers are at stake. This Dizzy chap is quite a hand with the girls, but when he meets the lovely Tommy Thomas it's the real thing at last. But, alas, Tommy is affianced to another pilot, a good young fellow who is rapidly making his mark. There are lots of other people running about in the office...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/8/1936 | See Source »

...lately at which a member told us he hadn't carfare to get to the session and had walked 100 blocks [5 mi.] to attend. . . ." Another: "I personally know about 50 internes who have given up smoking because they don't have the price of tobacco. I know one chap whose girl bought him a new suit?his first in five years?and maybe he didn't have to pocket his pride to allow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Wages for Internes | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...with the coming of age both boys develop a thoroughgoing love for the girl. They are both fine fellows but Allan (Frederic March) has a bit more dash to him and from the start he has held Kitty's (Merie Oberon) undivided affection Gerald (Herbert Marshall), the other chap takes the blow manfully and along comes the War. During the Big Drive Allan disappears into a flurry of bombs and is given up for dead. Gerald returns to the languishing Kitty and years pass. They are just on the verge of wedlock when Gerald discovers that Allan is alive...

Author: By S. M. E., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 9/24/1935 | See Source »

...percentage of healthy, great-souled folk who stride toward their goal with unaverted eyes. If Harvard is in any way comparable to Cambridge, it will become less of a butt for yellow journalism when every freshman decides upon his goal and goes for it, without wondering what the other chap is going...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Cambridge Letter | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

Then there is the chap who, like so many of these dangerous foreigners, hails from Pittsburgh. His Koppers Construction Company has taught the Soviets how to build coke ovens. His name is Andrew Mellon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Bigger and Better Bolshevik Plot | 3/2/1935 | See Source »

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