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...fifteen or twenty minute drive from Harvard Square and offers two large open slopes, one with a fairly steep descent. There is a jump which gives leaps of sixty and seventy feet under normal conditions for those who prefer this type of skiing. There is also a toboggan chute...
...flamboyantly modernistic French Château de I'Horizon at Juan-les-Pins which he has rented from oldtime Actress Maxine Elliott. Last week Britons viewed bug-eyed in their illustrated papers pictures of this Hollywood setting, complete with ''artificial moonlight" and a practical joke swimming chute. Fun is had when a guest sits down and lets go, only to discover too late that he is sliding 30 feet down on abrasive cement...
...attend to the task of tying up loose ends. Beyond cavail, the college must recognize the growing importance of Sociology. It must discover some way of giving it a more adequate "cut" in departmental allowances, and, if necessary, shear the allotments of departments which have been sliding down the chute of popularity...
...showing real roses in real vases is apparently the east end of Manhattan's 53rd Street. To the left stands the rear entrance of a swank apartment not unlike River House. In the centre squats a row of verminous flats. To the right rises a grimy coal chute. And all across the front stretches a pier-end from which urchins dive with a splash into what normally would be the orchestra pit, but which gives every illusion of being the fetid East River...
Last week International Nickel Co. of Canada raised its quarterly dividend from 15? to 20? a share. Irving Air Chute raised its regular dividend from 10? to 15?, declared an extra of 10?. Reporting a sharp increase in half-year profits, Eastman-Kodak voted a 25? extra in addition to a regular dividend of $1.25. But the fattest extra dividend of the week was 50? paid the 14,190 stockholders of Timken Roller Bearing Co. of Canton, Ohio. During the first six months, Timken earned $4,522,000, nearly double the profits for the same period last year...