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...charts two smaller peaks (whose combined height should equal that of the "Present" peak) reveal the size of the yes & no votes. The announcer may at once announce election results. Dr. Hopkins was born 60 years ago in Portland, Me. Twenty-six years later he graduated from Columbian, now George Washington University, won Franklin Institute's John Scott medal for electrical research a year later. He lectures at New York University. During the seven years he has worked on radiovoting, sometimes in the secrecy of New Jersey's woodlands, many a corollary idea has struck...
...confronted Dean Hawkes when, after months of quiet sleuthing, Editor Arnold Beichman of Columbia's Spectator and another senior presented him with evidence of "financial irregularities" in the management of two student dances. Object of the charges was their classmate Robert M. Tierney, editor-in-chief of the Columbian (yearbook), senior member of the Student Board of Representatives, last year's president of his class. Last week Dean Hawkes announced that he had asked Senior Tierney "not to register for the spring session...
...fair deficits because world's fairs bring them business. Of first importance therefore is: how many people does a fair draw? A Century of Progress collected 22,320,000 paid admissions in its 170 days of operation by comparison with 21,480,000 for Chicago's famed Columbian Exposition (179 days in 1893). To estimate drawing power of the two fairs: weigh the growth of U. S. population from 62,000,000 to 122,000,000 against the relative severity of Depression...
Yokels gaped and the nation's bustled churchwomen bawled righteous indignation when Little Egypt undulated her brown, pneumatic belly at Chicago in 1893. No more, no less rowdy than the Columbian Exposition, Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition last week found itself the scene of a turpitudinous squabble which threatened to take on national proportions...
...Nations, and Margaret Grace ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield, first woman member of a British Cabinet (Labor, 1929-31). From Japan came demure Baroness Shidzue Ishimoto, birth control advocate who lecture-toured the U. S. last winter. From Berlin came Dr. Marie Munk, first woman judge in Prussia. At the Columbian Exposition in 1893, women had a special building. This year they explained that since they had achieved equality they did not need...