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...spite of the ban which big bad Boston police have put on Esquire, a copy of that forbidden fruit mysteriously found its way into the Crimson office. More than that, it was coveted and scoured like a rare manuscript, and there was uncovered one article which all right-minded Harvard men should feel proud to read...
...might only consist of secretarial work, but it would teach him the ground work of office life. Since the University is forbidden by the terms of the grant to replace a regular worker with an N.Y.A. student, a great deal of work which has been abandoned since the Depression because of the limitation of the budget might be started up again using student workers. Other possible uses for graduate students are increasing the efficiency of Widener and grading bluebooks. Art work and hospital work are recommended by the Youth Administration...
Last week Mrs. Roosevelt deftly slipped the quartet into the program* of the Inaugural Gala, an omnium-gatherum of music and anti-Fascist vaudeville last Sunday night in Washington's Constitution Hall. That hall, owned by the D. A. R., two years ago was forbidden to Negro Contralto Marian Anderson. Last week the D. A. R. moodily approved the Golden Gate Quartet...
...doctor's office, after the fight, Armstrong joined his manager, Eddie Mead, who had brought him up from California's breadlines to nationwide headlines. Mead, recovering from a recent heart attack, had been forbidden to watch the fight or even listen to it on the radio. With tears streaming down his cheeks, he blubbered: "You'll never put on another glove, Henry." Henry soberly agreed that he had heard his last bell...
...Earth. Many an astronomer believes that the glow of the aurora borealis ("northern lights") is due to bombardments of electric particles from the sun, which agitate atoms in the upper air to the glow point. For a long time the spectrum lines corresponding to the auroral colors were called "forbidden lines'' because they could not be reproduced in the laboratory. Last week Drs. Joseph Kaplan and S. M. Ruben of U. C. L. A. told how they brought the auroral colors down to earth. They put gas molecules in a tube, stirred them up with a high-frequency...