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...wondering how the majority could be thus dillied, did well to look toward La Salle and Ran dolph Streets in Chicago. At that busy corner, one day last week, a white horse stood. On the horse was Miss Elane Summers, 19, a Rockford (Ill.) College sophomore, in a Revolutionary getup which was supposed to make her resemble Paul Revere (see cut,p.11). Calling herself Pauline Revere, Miss Summers admonished the U. S.: "MOBILIZE FOR PEACE-DEFEAT CONSCRIPTION." Said alliterative Papa Summers (who in 1938 denounced Communists for luring his son Thane to death in Loyalist Spain): ". . . My pink daughter...
...infantry lieutenant during World War I. In the past eight years his course in "American Thought and Civilization" has significantly outstripped in popularity elegant Professor Chauncey Brewster Tinker's "Age of Johnson" and now, with 350 students, has the largest crowd in the university. Textbookish in getup and without resort to charm, his book is strictly and impressively U. S. stuff, the richest work of its kind since Parrington's Main Currents of American Thought...
...audiences that took the madcaps of You Can't Take It With You to their bosoms had at least a friendly nod for the funny Sycamores' British cousins. First acting prize went to Gladys Henson as the new maid, Beer, a name that suits her perfectly. Her getup, contortions, expressive voicelessness and eye-rolling, best described by what psychiatrists call "heavenly nystagmus," save an otherwise flat and conventional conclusion...
...germicidal property of Hart light has one disadvantage. Duke Hospital surgeons must wear grotesque, hooded operating costumes, otherwise repeated exposure to the radiation would dangerously "sunburn" them. With their hoods they also wear goggles impervious to the radiation. This getup, admitted Dr. Hart, "is rather warm and uncomfortable. A more agreeable and adequate protection ... is now being developed...