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Officials of the University of Colorado recently suspended publication of the Flatiron, college humor magazine, claiming that it "debases student morals through pointless allusions to sex and alcohol." The suspension order termed the magazine "unworthy of being published under the name of the University of Colorado...
Then one day, working on a customer's coat, Govind was horrified to discover that he had sewed his fingertip to the cloth and didn't even feel it. Another day he smelled burning flesh, saw his own toes pressed against a flatiron, yet felt no pain. When the doctors cleared up the mystery, Govind had to swap his tradesman's heaven-on-earth for what he was sure would be leper's hell...
...Breaking Point. In Salem, Mass., Mrs. Lorraine Feys sued for divorce on grounds that her husband threw knives and a flatiron at her, pushed her down a stairway, struck her across the chest with an ironing board, tried to toss her out of a window. In Waukegan, Ill., Mrs. Forrest W. Sweitzer, charging desertion, finally filed a divorce suit against her husband, who disappeared, she said, in the fall...
...juicy musical; it will fall on its own feet. The most that can be said for "The Senator" is that it has its moments, but its moments are always isolated gags, such as one of the senator's posters announcing that he is "against inflation, against deflation, for flatiron." There is a fair number of gags, and almost all are funny, but there lies between them a dull story with dull people doing dull things. The greater part of the whole story unwinds in a single hotel room, where a bunch of unfunny, characterless politicians smoke cigars and harass...
...crimson carpet spilled down the steps of the yellow sandstone Sind Provincial Legislative Assembly Building in Karachi. A turbaned, barefoot Moslem carefully dusted it off, pressed it with an enormous flatiron. All was now ready for the Pooh-Bah of Pakistan, in whose austere person are combined the offices of Governor General, President of the Constituent Assembly and President of the Moslem League. With proper crustiness, Mohamed Ali Jinnah strode up the steps with his sister Fatima. He was wearing a white achkan (long coat), grey fur "Jinnah cap" and a monocle. The small crowd (5,000) shouted "Quaid...