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...House of Representatives where the President is supposed to have his strongest legislative backing, the Hoover warning fell on deaf ears. Not so his request for public buildings. This is a campaign year. All Congressmen are up for reelection. As candidates, they must vote for everything that will give them talking points on the stump, deficit or no deficit. Therefore last week the House's response to President Hoover's "alarm" was passage of legislation to skyrocket the cost of Government...
Thomas Alva Edison, discussing photography with newscameramen at his Fort Myers, Fla. winter home, said: "I don't like these talking pictures. I can't hear a word they say. Something will have to be done for the entertainment of 2,000,000 deaf persons like myself. Take this It girl [plump Cinemactress Clara Bow]. I used to like her, but now she's talking too and that spoils...
Waggish professors in elementary physics never fail to put to their classes such a question as: "If a stone deaf man, alone on the moon, should shoot off a cannon, would there be any sound?" Ensnared students readily answer yes; should answer...
...Exeter Academy. Exeter's greatest benefactor, he is an alumnus (1890), a trustee, has previously given his school a gymnasium, swimming pool, tennis & squash courts, baseball cage, science building, administration building (total value: over $1,000,000). Other recipients of Thompson benefactions: Columbia University, Clarke School for the Deaf, Boyce Thompson Institute for plant research...
...than the faint shadow of a guttural. Her mood, tuned with her circumstances and what she knows about life, alters from fierce, bewildered anguish, to a cold, shrewd determination to get even with the world, and then to a tolerant, warmly human sophistication. Best shot: Miss Chatterton meeting the deaf and dumb boy who is being palmed...