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Dismayed was the Navy last month to discover that the heavy sternposts of five of these new men-o-war were defective, that their rudders might rip away on turns made at high speed. But downright disheartening was the discovery last week that all eight cruisers at sea have such...
European papers have been buzzing for weeks, still buzz, with the preposterous story that Crown Princess Maria Jose of Italy shot Jeannette MacDonald on the Riviera last winter, blinding her in one eye. Gullible European editors did not (U. S. editors promptly did) wire to Hollywood and discover that Miss...
Questioned as to the widespread concern over crime in this country, Professor Glueck emphasized the experimental nature of the new curriculum. "I should like to stress," he said, "that no rash promises to 'discover the cause of crime' are being made. The Institute of Criminal Laws known that the crime...
The difficulties of retrieving the coat are not so ingenuously preposterous as those imagined by originators of the old-time farces. Director Clair, perceiving opportunities for satire, has made the opera singer a stout, pretentious clown, the thief & friends ridiculous prototypes of U. S. gangsters, the hero's creditors...
Because the late Dr. William T. Brigham, director of physical education at Harvard University, took measurements of some 2,000 Harvard students between 1870 and 1880, it has been possible by measuring later students to discover a distinct change in size, an evolutionary trend. Last week Gordon Townsend Bowles, graduate...