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...courses-Greek for Southwestern, business law for State, biology for Southwestern, mythology for State. Meanwhile, he happily pursued his extracurricular jobs. He never lost a pound, never appeared tired, and his work never fell off. Last week, Memphis State decided that college policy could no longer permit such goings-on, and Starr reluctantly resigned from the campus. But that did not mean that he intended to change his habits much. "I've got to find something to do on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays now that I've left State," he said last week. "I'll just go...
London's bright boys just had to see what the worst show in 20 years looked like. They screamed with laughter at its superpatriotic goings-on, involving gallant officers, dastardly villains, prostitutes, Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, taints of illegitimacy, stolen papers, stolen cash, the Union Jack. They went back for more, and their friends went with them. .Soon it became quite as chic to go (preferably halfcocked) to Young England as to the opera. At first the audience merely ad-libbed, then (as they came to know the play virtually by heart) they started beating the actors to their...
Significance. No more significance than a circus would the Cleveland goings-on have had if 1936 were not a Presidential year, if polls and experienced observers did not forecast a close election. Because of these facts, the coalition of discontent welded last week when Pensioneer Townsend and Share-Our-Wealther Smith agreed to back Inflationist Lemke, go on a four-ring barnstorming tour with him and Inflationist Coughlin, aroused serious political speculation. Hardly the simplest-minded members of the Lemke-Coughlin-Smith-Townsend following could expect their votes to put North Dakota's Lemke in the White House. What...
...with its carefree days when many a morning he saw the dawn break over the old Kremlin after a gay night in Moscow. His happy-go-lucky spirit was held in check for a time after he married an Australian girl. Rumors were soon heard, however, of his goings-on with a Russian Jewess. This tale reached his ambassador and Lockhart returned to England "for a rest...
...bankers shoved out Gen eral Manager Carroll, replacing him with efficiency experts. With a sad expression on his face he hung around the piers, re fused to go with any other company. Soon Gloucester's fishermen were slapping their thighs and squirting tobacco juice with relish at the goings-on in Gorton-Pew. The efficiency experts drew up a schedule of arrivals and departures for the fleet, overlooking the matter of tides, fogs, running seas. They even set the number of fish each vessel should return with. In two years they lost $2,700,000 of the company...