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April Fool's Day was a complete flop this year; the Cambridge Fire Department received no false alarms, and the University received no telephonists asking to speak to Mr. Harvard...
...movies come in for another does of ridicule, but the show is by no means squeezed into the narrow scope of merely laughing at the great, defenseless, adolescent industry. There is a Ramone Ramon (pronounced Ramone Ramone, John C. Develin, '38), who is instrumental in a complete collegiate flop along the lines of the complete collegiate flops with which Hollywood periodically inflicts us. There is also a Llewellyn Flushingale, producer (Benjamin F. Dillingham, '39), who is as poetically illiterate, as pompously ignorant, and as, madly lavish, as movie producers are commonly known to be. But this is only a beginning...
...into a national eyesore, Pierce Petroleum Corp. launched in the Midwest a chain of pleasant-looking roadside hotels complete with Renaissance restrooms and Colonial halls hung with $20,000 worth of genuine Currier & Ives prints. Attractive though these small hotels were, they turned out to be a great financial flop, and in 1930 along with the rest of Pierce Petroleum's assets, were sold to what is now Harry Ford Sinclair's Consolidated Oil Corp. For its hotels, refineries, pipelines, filling stations, Pierce Petroleum received among other things 645,000 shares of Consolidated Oil Stock, which has long...
...Immediate effect of the opinion in Manhattan was to end a cat-&-dog price fight in the retail liquor business. Publishers and cosmetic makers at last foresaw the end of cut-throat price competition in the nation's No. 1 buying State.* Second day after the Albany flip-flop mammoth Macy's which traditionally "will not be undersold," announced what the world's biggest department store was going to do about it. Full-page newspaper advertisements screamed: "The Consumer will NOW decide." Macy's said it would henceforth offer goods in three classifications plainly labeled...
...dress. Katharine Cornell's co-starring Flush in The Barretts of Wimpole Street may have had something to do with the cocker spaniel's recent spectacular rise in the U. S. A more likely explanation, considering its simultaneous rise in Britain, is growing appreciation of the flop-eared little dog's all-around qualities as a pet as well as a gun dog. Playful, gentle and notable even among dogs for his panting, big-eyed devotion, the cocker likes apartment corners and city streets almost as well as small-town lawns and country fields...