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...first time in history. During his administration he spent over $50,000,000 for hospital construction. But, says he, "I am just as proud of the old buildings I demolished as the new ones I built." Perhaps his biggest accomplishments were the construction of a 1,500-bed chronic-disease hospital and a convalescent day camp, on Welfare Island...
Heading the list of factors-for-the-good is the cast. Seldom have audiences witnessed a more perfect chronic sneer than that of Laurence Olivier; seldom a more perfect break-down that the first proposal scene. Greer Garson is the second edition of Myrna Loy,--and the second edition can act. Honorable mention goes to Mary Boland, whose past career has been a rehearsal for the part of Mrs. Bennett, and Melville Cooper, whose depiction of stuffed shirts is rapidly approaching...
University of Pennsylvania Alumnus William Guggenheim, copper tycoon, chronic writer-to-the-papers, 71 -year-old songwriter (You're a Glamour Girl, Crumbs of Love), caught wind of a U. of P. plan to award Franklin Roosevelt an honorary degree. To President Thomas Sovereign Gates, onetime Morgan partner, he sent an indignant wire, declaring that he believed the "vast majority of our 40,000 or more alumni, who are Willkie-for-President men," would be as shocked as he, hoping President Gates would "rectify what must be an unintentional mistake...
After a patient wait, death came last week to Hans Zinsser, bacteriologist, physician, philosopher, poet, ironist, historian, raconteur. At 61, he died of chronic leukemia, a slow-moving, mysterious disease of the blood for which there is no known cure...
...minor early 1940 slump, began to turn up. During the summer, as recovery quickened with the defense program, more & more businessmen began increasing their inventory commitments, began thinking about plant expansion. By Labor Day, traditional milepost of the business year, business was rolling along, gathering boom momentum. A few chronic laggards remained behind. One was oil, the victim of a production war between the States. Another was cotton, practically shorn of its export markets, hopelessly overproduced for the market left to it. Another was corn, also export-dependent, whose only records these days are set in terms of surpluses...