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...interviewed General Weygand in Syria—went to Egypt to see the defenses of Suez and to appraise King Farouk's loyalty to Britain—was caught by the great earthquake at far-away Erzincan on the Euphrates while he and Margaret Bourke-White were photo-reporting their way through Turkey...
Careerpuellae bookophiliac. Those who study hard. These account for most of the 33 1-3 per cent that eschew (or are eschewed by) men. They like to think of "higher things" like the hereafter, science, or the Harvard Freshman Jubilee. They are noted for a dreamy, far-away look, and may be found curled up with their books in armchairs, the latter usually surrounded by cigarette butts...
...With The Stars" is not Gidding's best story, but his understanding of a character, in this case Crystal Lodus, was never keener. Somehow Crystal, with all her cheap beauty and her intense longing for the far-away love of a Tyrone Power or Alfred Gwymne Vanderbilt, is a part of many men and women much bigger than herself...
...Avenue, Stan Shaw, with an engineer and an assistant, stands watch over two turntables, a microphone, 10,000 records and two telegraph receiving machines. He gets anywhere from 150 to 250 request telegrams each morning. Most come from Manhattan's metropolitan area, but some regulars click in from far-away Florida and Ohio. Once Walter Winchell, whose favorite selection is Star Dust, sent Stan a 794-word telegram. One mysterious regular, Little Caesar, has sent as many as 20 telegrams in one morning, usually hailing Stan with "Hiya Skipper" and requesting selections to be dedicated to "Gloria...
...squeezing out the graduate students who would like to use the floors. And even the facilities for exercise which do exist are so little advertised and pushed into the public eye by the authorities in charge--a conspicuous example is Soldiers Field--that many who come to Harvard from far-away colleges never even know what they are missing...