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...airplanes so that he can get one free. If Once in a Lifetime is less funny because less angry than it was upon the stage, it is just as appropriately cast. Aline MacMahon, in the rôle which got her a Hollywood contract two years ago, is the cleverest of the three vaudevillains. The incredibly stupid receptionist in the studio lobby is Zasu Pitts. While making vague enquiries about the name of an author who has been waiting to see Mr. Glogauer for four months, she utters genteel moans so sad that they are almost yodels...
...suffice-length, breadth, height. But for profound science more grips on reality are needed-a variable time, for example And not only many grips are needed, but flexibility in their operation. The mathematical machine, most solid of the sciences, is constantly acquiring new links and kinks. One of its cleverest engineers is Professor Oswald Veblen...
...Madison Square Garden, Benny Leonard was wiping stringy thin hair out of his eyes 30 seconds after tough Jimmy McLarnin began to hit him. The pudgy Canadian welter- weight shook his head at the hardest blows Leonard's bowarms could deliver. What was left, at 36, of the cleverest boxer the lightweight division ever knew was knocked down in the second round. In the sixth he could not hold his paunch in, found his legs behaving like Leon Errol's. McLarnin hit him on the side of his head with a straight right-hand blow. The Errol legs...
...Cleverest of living French writers, in his own and many others' opinion. Jean Cocteau is an opium smoker. Most good writers have something the matter with them but generally keep it dark. Not so Author Cocteau, who makes no apology for his vice, regards it apparently as an interesting integral part of the most interesting personality he knows. This "diary" is really a series of notes, on any and every subject, made at a clinic in St. Cloud, apparently while Author Cocteau was being, as he calls it, "disintoxicated." The 27 line-drawings, in Cocteau's unmistakable style...
...first prize for exhibits, a gold medal, went neither to the biggest, nor the neatest, nor the cleverest, nor the most learned presentation. Jacob Furth, an immunologist at the Henry Phipps Institute of the University of Pennsylvania, a onetime worker at the Rockefeller Institute, won the gold medal for his demonstration of experimental leucemia. Leucemia is a blood disease closely resembling cancer. The blood contains abnormally vast numbers of white blood cells. Usually the spleen and liver are hugely enlarged. Bone marrow is usually affected. Dr. Furth isolated a virus from leucemic chickens. The virus stimulated leucemia in other chickens...