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Young men and maidens fair, old dames with canes to aid their limping gait, instructors with their non-so-pretty wives, an oh! so dapper House Master in a dinner coat and burberry, Cambridge hoydens, Freshmen wondering what it is all about, musty little people disgorged by the library to dust themselves off from their vigil among the books in the tombs, secretaries, to some dean--you don't know which,--but you've see them in University Hall--Radcliffe and debutantes on the loose--such is the group that gathers round the steps of Widener to hear the Glee...
...part. Wisconsin's famed, white-maned Senator Robert Marion La Follette Sr. ran for President on an independent Progressive ticket in 1924, polled nearly 5,000,000 votes. Since his death in 1925, La Follette Progressivism has been ably carried on by his two sons- conscientious dapper "Young Bob," 43, who went to the U. S. Senate in 1925 to fill the unexpired term of his father, and Philip, who has been elected Wisconsin's Governor...
...dapper, wiry Russian Igor Stravinsky scandalized conservative audiences with a boisterous, cacophonous ballet, Le Sacre du Printemps, in which the time-honored conventions of melodic form often gave way to an ingenious concatenation of non-musical sounds. Four years previously a morose, bald-pated Viennese named Arnold Schönberg had issued his Five Pieces for Orchestra and Three Piano Pieces to a musical world already slightly deafened by the acrid harmonies of his previous works. Composer Schönberg's two opuses were the first examples of systematic "atonality." To Composer Schönberg the laws by which...
...Dapper President Kamal Atatürk, "Father of the Turks," definitely learned last week that a life of ease on a sumptuous superyacht awaited him whenever he felt inclined to leave his pink-tinted villa on the hill above Ankara, and take to Turkish waters. Before the star & crescent could be raised over President-Dictator Kamal Atatürk's gift from his people, however, a diplomatic snarl between the U. S., Germany and Turkey had to be untangled...
When the Jones Brothers started the world's only Negro-owned department store they had to buy the property to get onto 47th Street. When dapper little Frank Howell Jr. started Mae's Dress Shoppe, he was forced to pay six-and-a-half months' rent in advance. This smoldered in Negro Howell's breast and continued to as he prospered. After Marva Trotter, fiancée of Prizefighter Joe Louis, bought her trousseau from Frank Howell, four other Mae's Dress Shoppes were started by rivals eager to cash in on the publicity...