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...Oakland, Calif., newshawks discovered Negro Jack Dempsey Washington Tyler, "scientific sewer cleaner and turtle trainer." Jack Dempsey Washington Tyler's trained turtles will go through anything in order to reach a pinch of powdered flies. He hitches them to a small metal plow, sends them through clogged drains...
...bourgeois mansion, his Moscow Art Theatre, with the famed sea gull from Chekhov's play on its curtain, remains "a spot sacred and awesome to the man of the theatre. . . . The audience seems to talk in lower tones here; their hair is combed more carefully. Their shirts are cleaner than in other theatres." The Days of the Tnrbins provided Observer Houghton's first impression. The play was an extremely sympathetic treatment of a White family during the horrors of the 1917-22 civil war. First presented eight years ago, it was promptly banned by Soviet censors. Moscow...
...Dunster House was so disgusted with the appearance of his walls that he set to work himself with wall-paper cleaner. Another in Winthrop House was driven to hire the University for $40 to paint his spotted walls and ceiling. Recently, an inspector, when shown the peeling paint in a bathroom, casually remarked, "A lot do that. It's the steam from the shower." some walls in the Yard have been washed two-thirds of the way up; but whether it was the work of the University or former occupants is unknown. At any rate, there...
Sirs: Hearty congratulations on your fair-minded and unprejudiced article on Mr. J. P. Morgan [TIME, Jan. 20J. In this day when it seems to be so fashionable to editorially damn and assume as "crooks" all bankers, your current article brings a gratifying ray of hope for a cleaner deal from the press to a class that has been outrageously slandered for the last several years. TIME is the last place I would ever look for such an equanimous attitude, but having found it there I offer you sincere felicitations and a hope to find more often between your pages...
...Freshman each has been contributed by "a big game hunter, a missionary, a detective, a brewer, a governor a milkman, a state supreme court justice, a ship cleaner, a special agent for federal bureau of internal revenue" (not James Cagney), "a weaver, a mayor, and a welfare director." Whether University Hall's failure to lump this matter with "a Y. M. C. A. director" was accidental or a reflection on Y. M. C. A.'s welfare capacity is not known...