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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beauty To International Beauty Shop Owners convening in Manhattan were exhibited these detachable gadgets: colored fingernails which can be shaped & filed; gold-plated nose-shapers, worn inside, to make straight noses saucy; lip covers 1 100,000th of an inch thick; courtplaster tacks to pin back jutting ears; hats with curls of real hair dangling from the back...
Edward Esty Stowell '34, of New York City has been elected captain of the Varsity swimming team for 1933-34. Stowell, who prepared for Harvard at St. Paul's School, is 20 years old, weights 166 pounds, and is 6 feet, 1 inch tall. He has been a member of the team during his Sophomore and Junior years. A year ago he won the 150-yard backstroke Eastern Intercollegiate Championship title, and this winter he placed third in the National Intercollegiate...
Herbert Eustis Winlock, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, had news for the Press last week: the Museum had bought a picture-one inch wider than a sheet of typewriter paper. The little picture, Agony in the Garden, was painted by Raphael. It is a panel from an altarpiece presented to the Museum 16 years ago by John P. Morgan, which can now be reassembled for the first time in 270 years. It was purchased from Clarence Hungerford Mackay, Postal Telegraph chairman, father-in-law of wealthy Composer Irving Berlin...
...professor of Naval Science and Tactics, yesterday to a CRIMSON representative, discussing the newly commissioned "treaty cruiser" which is now open to the public Saturday and Sunday afternoons in the Boston Navy Yard. The ship is being inspected by members of the Naval Science department. "There are eight five inch anti-aircraft guns which can shoot 78-pound shells eight miles up into the air, and eight 50-calibre anti-aircraft machine game. If by any chance as airplane should get close, the anti-machine guns would fire a stream of 2500 bullets per minute in barrage form...
...principal armament of the vessel is nine eight-inch game arranged in three triple gun turrets. The three guns in each turret are in one sleeve and are moved together. These cruisers are the first to carry eight-inch guns of 55 calibre obtaining a range of 34,000 yards, approximately 17 nautical miles and nearly 20 land miles. They fire shells weighing 260 pounds...