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...cinemaddicts who she was, Baby, Take a Bow, then shuttled her back to Paramount for Now and Forever. When the grosses of these three pictures were recorded, it was undeniably apparent that Shirley Temple was potentially the most valuable human property in Hollywood. Now thoroughly alarmed, Fox got stage fright about stories. Director David Butler finally suggested one called Bright Eyes, released at Christmas...
...Fowler lists many guesses concerning the cause of chlorosis: menstrual difficulties, unrequited love, sudden fright, fallen stomachs, tight corsets, constipation, poor ventilation, overwork. Says he : "Probably the most logical view was . . . a long-continued iron deficiency in the diet." Despite those guesses "the reasons for the disappearance of chlorosis remain in darkness, and with its disappearance the explanation of its etiology becomes increasingly difficult...
During the worst of the Hitler war-fright the market looked as if it might take a bad tumble. Yet by last week it had regained composure, and prices were nearly back to the highs of the previous fortnight. To the first flood news last week the market was impervious, though later when it was realized that first-half earnings would have to be revised downward for the industrials, utilities and railroads affected, quotations began to soften. What the stockmarket will do next is anybody's guess. But what U. S. business will do for the next few months...
...stirring triumph over the college bicyclers. Today Harvard is reviving the Magna Carta of Cambridge pedestrians, the Lowell law against bicycling in the Yard, and henceforth the hateful two-wheeler is banished from the highways and byways. No longer need walkers and truckers, freshmen and presidents, stand petrified with fright while the whirling dervish streaks by streaming dust and dirt on all who watch it pass. Nightmares and dreams of sudden death are over, and all's quiet along the Charles...
...England Dr. Edward Arnold Carmichael of London conducted volumetric experiments which convinced him that when a person hears a loud, sudden noise his arms and legs shrink in size. Reason: noise, like cold, pain, fright or excitement, releases nerve impulses which contract the capillaries, diminish their blood content...