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...metamorphosis was watched with interest by a onetime assistant editor of College Humor, George Teeple Eggleston, now editor of Life. To him it seemed a strategic moment. He went to his boss, Publisher Clair Maxwell, persuaded him that Life ought, for the first time in 50 years, to publish something besides Life. The result appeared this week-the first issue of University. Like College Humor twelve years ago, University was tentatively begun as a quarterly. Price...
...writer for the cinema. Friends told him the way to do it was to write a book. He wrote a book of short stories in two weeks, paid to have it printed, waved it in producers' faces when asking for a job. He and Director Malcolm St. Clair managed famed Police Dog Rin Tin Tin. They got work with Warner Brothers by acting out their stories, taking turns impersonating Rin Tin Tin. Small, sharp-faced Zanuck quickly progressed to a successful series of boxing stories; in three years he was studio dictator. When Warner Brothers merged with First National...
...Louis' Hoboken, a riveredge district thick with foundries, chemical plants, railroad yards. Many mules are sold there and, periodically, there is a scandal. Last week's scandal concerned Addison J. Throop, an elderly printer and collector of Indian relics who became chairman of the St. Clair County Board of Tax Review in 1928 "when Alfred E. Smith had a great following and I was elected by a fluke...
...blacks. First step was to declare officially that the country contains two kinds of Negroes-poor Southern country Negroes and less poor Northern city Negroes. Northern Negroes show more tuberculosis than Southern Negroes. The Association is attacking Northern conditions first-upon advice of its special investigator Dr. Cameron St. Clair Guild (pronounced Gould), a Nova Scotian who has become expert on Southern U. S. public health deficiencies. The Rosenwald Fund, builder of schools for rural Negroes, is paying for tuberculosis control among the Race. One able Negro, Sociologist Charles Spurgeon Johnson of Fisk University, belongs to the committee of prevention...
...learning to use his left hand, right-handed stuttering David St. Clair of the University of Oklahoma got rid of his impediment, won a 1932 Rhodes Scholarship. Rhodes Scholars must be, apart from brilliant scholarship and civilized deportment, fluent talkers. At the University of Iowa Professor Lee Edward Travis announced as a discovery "that nerve impulses which dominate the two sides of the speech mechanism are strikingly dissimilar when a person stutters...