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Following the lesser advance wave of soda fountain mark-ups, students are betraying through conversation and letters an uneasiness over rumors of increased University board rates and even tuition fees. No decisions have yet been announced by the Administration...
...Somerset Maugham: "I sit down with a fountain pen and paper and the story pours out. However lousy a section is I let it go. I write on to the end. Then the subconscious mind has done what it can. . . . The rest is simply effort . . . polishing, rewriting the lousy parts . . . going over a chapter time and time again, until, though you know it isn't right, it is the best...
...United wants to do with its stores was shown fortnight ago when the first Owl "Superstore" opened its doors on Hollywood's busiest corner, Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street. It looked like a De Mille glorification of a drugstore-indirect lighting, air-conditioning and a 56-stool counter-fountain, with endless belt to bring food from the kitchen and carry back dirty dishes...
Frank Sanborn had first startled the Mexican drug business by refusing to pay doctors a percentage on prescriptions he filled. His next innovation: an American soda fountain. By 1919, when Sanborn's moved to the Casa de Azulejos, it had become a favorite gathering place for Mexicans and American tourists alike...
...Berlin's Kaiser Friedrich), they saw the work of such Flemish masters as Van Eyck, Gerard David and Van der Goes, such Germans as Dürer, Grünewald and Holbein. But the popular favorite by a day's march was Cranach's 16th-Century Fountain of Youth. His cosily detailed vision of the fountain seemed as real as a park pool. Cranach made people half-believe he had found the place where stooped cripples and trembling yellow hags could bathe and become pink-skinned virgins once again...