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...Charles, Harvard would lie cramped between an ugly industrial city bristling with smoke-stacks and neon signs, and the cool green lawns of Brattle Street. If there were no river, men would grow vicious with no place to walk, and they would sit in smoke-filled rooms and dart like angry wasps at each other buzzing invective in ever-changing patterns. Under the blanket of heat that descends over the steeples and towers of Cambridge in the afternoon, the Charles sleeps while agile youths flit on the mirrored surface like water-spiders...
Last week's fighting in Jehol meant only hindrance to Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, famed digger of fossils in Mongolia. Dr. Andrews recognized the State of Manchukuo last autumn, arranged with the Regency to continue his Mongolian diggings. As soon as Japan pacifies the region, he will dart in with Dodge cars, camels and naturalists. He has closed the Peking headquarters from which he led five expeditions between 1921 and 1930 at a cost...
Jenny Wren (Karen Morley) is a loose lady who, at a house party which she has caused to be given in her honor, blackmails four of her previous admirers for $500,000. When she is found dead, with a feathered dart in the back of her neck, it seems at first quite easy to guess who did it. Presently it becomes more difficult. A lugubrious old man might have done it because Jenny Wren caused his son to commit suicide. A gaunt spinster (Pauline Frederick) might have done it because her nephew wants to marry Jenny Wren's sister...
...wives of U. S. Presidents- TIME. Nov. 16), it was performed last week on NBC's Pil grim Program (studio program). Excerpts : Oh, Ye Gods why should my Poor Resistless Heart Stand to oppose thy might and power, At last surrender to Cupid's feather'd Dart, And now lays bleeding every h-o-u-r In deluding slee pings let my Eyelids close, That in an enraptured d-r-e-a-m I may, In a soft lulling sleep and gentle re pose, Possess those joys denied...
...undertaker and died, apparently, from having a handkerchief stuffed down his throat. It would have been impossible for a normal person to find out who killed him, but not for Dr. Archer, a colored physician almost as erudite as Frimbo himself. Dr. Archer's suggestions proved invaluable to Detective Dart who seated himself in Frimbo's parlor and proceeded to examine suspects: the undertaker; the undertaker's wife ; a Negro porter named Easley Jones; a dope fiend; a "numbers" runner; two light-hearted Negro bucks named Bubber Brown and Jinx Jenkins; a gaunt female Baptist...