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Lights were dimmer along Manhattan's cafe-cluttered 52nd Street last week as "cafe society" showed the pressure of Wall Street's three-month fall. But people in the market are not the only ones feeling the pinch these days. Figures released from Hollywood last week revealed that between 10% and 20% fewer U. S. citizens went to the movies this October than went a year ago. As a result, one studio which had budgeted some $3,000,000 for new construction cut it down...
...live up to the tributes given him in New York is an accomplishment indeed, and I find his the best interpretation of the Danish prince I have yet seen. Back to Cambridge soon afterwards, with the lights of the Business School leering contemptuously across the river at the far dimmer eyes of the Houses on the other side. To bed to dream of sitting at "Hamlet" with Mr. Widener's first folio of Shakespere in my lap, keeping careful track of Mr. Gielgud's lines...
...summer of 1802 Napoleon Bonaparte spoke to his Council of State: "If the European states intend every to renew the war, the sooner it comes the better. Every day the remembrance of their defeats grows dimmer and at the same time the prestige of our victories pales . . . . France needs glorious deeds, and hence war. She must be the first among the states or she is lost. I shall put up with peace as long as our negihbors can maintain it, but I shall regard it as an advantage if they force me to take up my arms again before they...
With the approach of the game, the hopes that Lane and Cheek may be ready to work on Saturday grow dimmer and dimmer. Reports yesterday had it that Cheek will not even be able to be sent in at all and that it is considered advisable to keep Lane out altogether. Their Varsity letters may be voted by members of the squad, coaches, etc., and it is likely that this will be the method used in awarding them. In spite of their injuries, however, they will dress for the game...