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Like a monstrous, whitish grub dragged from its great cocoon, the new German dirigible LZ-129 last week nosed out of its hangar at Friedrichshafen for its first test flight. With Dr. Hugo Eckener in charge of a skeleton crew, the silvery 812-ft. airship, nearly twice the Graf Zeppelin's size, drifted silently out over Lake Constance for three hours, behaved so perfectly that officials boasted further trials were superfluous...
...proposal for a three-year college course, mot recently advocated by Dr. Drury of St. Paul's School, demands the serious consideration of President Conant. While, a graduate must grub for years to earn a self supporting income, as an undergraduate he usually wastes an appalling amount of time...
...Thou wert right, Horace: Painters have licence in everything. But do artists? One bit called, "Odalisque", a young girl reclining on a coach looks more like Steig's stuff, but no, it's another of Borges. Utrillo's contribution had best be called "four big hips going to grub" than "Auberge". And, gentle readers, if you see the "Magnetic Cultivation of Planets," in Paul Klee's little brain child then please come to the Vagabond's Tower. Rare souls are always welcome...
...cabin floor, cooked breakfast over a fire in the front yard, shambled unrecognized into the village store and bought some groceries. Snarled the storekeeper: "One dollar and sixty-five cents-and three cents for the sales tax that that goddam Governor Murray put on the poor man's grub." When indignant citizens stormed Little Rock demanding a special session of the Legislature to repeal Arkansas' new 2% sales tax, Governor Junius Marion Futrell fled to Hot Springs, hopped into a steam bath, cried: "It's cooler in this box than it was at the Capitol...
Last week the directors of Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co. declared their initial dividend, a 50? payment that marked the first return on a classic promotion. Just 20 years ago a Canadian prospector stumbled on a rusty streak of sulphide ore in the ancient rocks of northern Manitoba. Having grub-staked the prospector and his five partners, John E. ("Jack") Hammell made them a proposition: $100,000 for each prospector, $1,000,000 for himself if he could get it. Laughing uproariously, the prospectors agreed...