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...Violeta and their two-year-old son, he lives in two rooms (rent: $18 a month) in the working class barrio of Jesus del Monte. Most days Catalino comes home to a dinner of beans and rice, and Sundays, before going out to the ball game, he favors arroz con polio. But rice is almost as scarce as meat these days, and lately Violeta has filled out the meal with vegetables...
...Control. What good was the discovery? The biological revolutionists were reluctant to say. But they admitted (with a gleam in their eyes) that it gave a new, promising method of controlling cell life and growth. They had already con trolled yeast cells by regulating competition among plasmagenes. Future biologists might do the same with bacteria cells or man cells...
...H.A.A. official emphasized the fact that such exchanges will be transacted only through the Association's offices at Quincy Street. The Garden will not honor season ticket coupons. Purchases for weekday games con be made until 5 o'clock on game days, while locations for Saturday night contests at the special rate can be obtained before noon on Saturdays...
Editors of the 1950 Red Book will con-confer with the Student Council Wednesday evening in an effort "to win greater Independence" in putting out the Freshman annual, editor-in-chief Robert J. Blinken '50 announced yesterday...
Every shady move in this fast crook movie has been tested and approved, time & again, at the boxoffice. But the familiar yarn, retold with energy, skill and loving corroborative detail, is still serviceable. John Garfield, head con man in as seedy a gang of characters as ever plotted a swindle, sets out to relieve a rich widow of her $2 million. His enthusiasm for his work naturally increases when the lady with the bankroll turns out to be Geraldine Fitzgerald. In time, of course, True Love, plus a visit to the mission at Capistrano, makes a new, upright...