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...doyenne of U.S. manners, wrote a 46-page treatise called "Motor Manners." Sample mannerisms: "... A gentleman will no more cheat a red light or a stop sign than he would cheat in a game of cards. A courteous lady will not 'scold' others raucously with her automobile horn any more than she would act like a 'fishwife' at a party...
Lowell House revived its pre-war tradition of senior book awards to its top men at High Table last night. In addition, Housemaster Elliott Perkins '23 presented Robert B. Clark '48 with a toy horn as "the man who has incited the biggest and beat riots in the small courtyard...
...Three Wives'), but Champion promptly doubled his price per picture. Warner Brothers took one look and signed him up for a seven-year, nine-picture deal at just under $1,000,000. His first two pictures for Warner will be Dorothy Baker's Young Man with a Horn and Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. He will also continue to do one film a year for Screen Plays, Inc., the welterweight studio which produced Champion...
Thousands of Argonauts found bitter disappointment in California; other thousands died without ever getting there. Those who chose the long trip around Cape Horn (best time: 89 days) risked storms and shipwreck; on the land-and-water route via the Isthmus of Panama (33 to 35 days), the perils included yellow fever and cholera. By the Overland and Santa Fe Trails, over which 50,000 traveled in 1849 alone, the trip could take all spring and all summer-and the gold seeker, plodding onward beyond the alkali desert in the Humboldt Valley, thought himself lucky to get across the Sierras...
...soloists both vocal and instrumental, were unformly good. Special notice must go to Leo Wolovsky, the bass. Though he suffered some in the "Quonian" from the competition of the horn, he showed complete understanding of words and music in the "Et in Spiritum Sanetum," with enough technical skill to make both apparent...