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Finest example of a garden ungrown is the Harvard Film Service, which has been running under its own power since 1934. Although the H.F.S. can, from the outside sale of films and the rental of projection equipment, eke out its own living, its sources of potential value to the University are being wasted through the indifference of officials. Unlike Dartmouth and Minnesota, both of which provide budgets, Harvard is not yet sold on the usefulness of a department of visual education. Thus, the Service runs on precarious finances, since its income is impossible, to estimate beforehand and the fixed sums...
...guffaws incontinently over the plight of a man (James Stewart) and a maid (Ginger Rogers) who are early to wed but late to bed. The man is a young biology professor, the maid a blonde, high-kicking cafe singer. Flimsy, bedroom-farcey, Vivacious Lady fetches predicaments from afar to eke out its plot to feature length...
...Brothers). Five days before this picture's Manhattan opening, discreet advertisements appeared in the columns of all papers except the chaste Times. They read: "If it's love you're after-? call Circle 7-5900." This pressagent come-on was aimed at the "mug trade," to eke out Actor Leslie Howard's acknowledged carriage-trade appeal. The Strand Theatre installed four extra telephone operators, armed them with a disarmingly commercial answer, waited for the fun to start. Of 11,000 calls handled up to opening day, about 60% came from curious women, 20% from tired business...
...counting the worn, dirty, ill-smelling U. S. currency sent in by banks to be changed for new bills. The room's windows have iron gratings and Treasury guards stand by, but last week it was discovered that four grey-haired drudges had found a way to eke out their $30-per-week pay. They had been robbing the Treasury for years. When a package of currency contained fewer bills than the number marked on the attached teller's slip, the four old checkers invariably noted the lack. But when a packet contained an extra bill...
Such entertaining she did against financial obstacles, for having lost most of her fortune during the Depression, she had to eke out her income by interior decorating and real estate. At times she rented her luxurious home to well-paying guests: to Otto Kahn during the Pecora investigation, to James A. Moffett while he was Federal Housing Administrator. Not till last summer did politics take a turn which promised to relieve her finances. As an ardent Roosevelt leader at the Philadelphia Convention, she undid the damage she had done herself at Chicago. The resignation of Minister Ruth Bryan Owen...