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Died. Frederic William Goudy, 82, dean of U.S. type designers; of coronary thrombosis; in Marlboro, N.Y. A penniless bookkeeper until he was 33, Goudy turned to his rare craft with the conviction that printed words should aid, not distract, the reader. Of his hundred-odd simple, honest designs for printing type, six are now classic, one (Kennerly) is considered by some experts the most beautiful since the work of 18th Century Master William Caslon...
...Council hopes that the short interval of time between the special elections held two months ago and these, the first regular elections, won't distract from interest in the Houses," Axt said...
Visiting Now Havenites, members of soccer and college football teams, attempted to distract the throngs with the strains of the immortal "Boola Boola," but the insurgents were quickly out-shouted by deep-threated Crimson rooters...
...Laffmovie is one of those Washington Street theatres where small children climb all over you in the afternoon, and sailors and their girl-friends distract you in the evening. There is a soda-dispenser in the lobby and there is the sickening smell of popcorn pervading the establishment at all times. But despite it all, it manages to resurrect the Marx Brothers about every other week, and with plugs in your nose and blinkers on your eyes, they are well worth an hour of your Reading Period time...
...proposed an overall information agency, provided with funds by Congress, advised by the Departments of State, War and Navy but not answerable to them; a single overall director. No special pleader would be allowed to distract the agency or distort its facts. The agency would report directly to the President...