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...Theatre has decided that it is oversexed. Fourteen plays (TIME, Oct. 29) plus various musical revues now current in Manhattan were intent upon the discussion or display of feminine attraction and its results upon a fallible mankind. So intent were six of these that the Society for the Suppression of Vice began to move restlessly in its cocoon. There was danger that it might burst and become a full-fledged moth to eat through the linings of the managers' money bags. But no. The managers, the actors, the playwrights put their hard old heads together. A plan developed...
...Fourteen thousand " panel" doctors serving 15,000,000 people under the British national health insurance scheme voted to strike Jan. 1 if a cut in their stipend proposed by the Government is ordered. Under the National Insurance Act adopted when David Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1911, five parties are concerned-insured workingmen, employers, insurance societies, doctors, the Government...
...sixty cents more per ton. Obviously, now that the voters minds were no longer preoccupied by the shadow of an empty bin, it was a propitious moment for Governors "Al" et al to despatch notes of protest. Their suggestion that she has been collecting from this monopoly, netting her fourteen cents a ton, is worthy of consideration. Also the demand that the operators themselves absorb a large part of the increase, in the light of such flexible profits recently betrayed in gasoline production, is excusable. Both of there are being considered by Governor Pinchot as he rounds a makeshift into...
...Fourteen new black jerseys were given out at the Locker Building today to five halfbacks, five quarterbacks, two ends and two line men who had survived Coach Fisher's first cut of the University squad on September 21. Fifty-two men now remain, but of these, Braden, Doherty, and Hammond are as yet ineligible to play. There are therefore less than fifty men available for the opening game with Rhode Island State next Saturday...
Only forty-eight men reported to Coach Farrell for cross-country practice, thirty-four for the University and fourteen for the Freshman team. As soon as things begin to settle down however, Coach Farrell expects to see more men out. For a week the squads will work out at Soldier's Field, and will then transfer to the Belmont courses, where the University squad will run over its usual six-mile and the Freshman over a three mile course. The workouts for the next week will be light...