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...capable emotional stripteasing by which Actress Conklin kept The Pursuit of Happiness alive for 250 performances. Before Miss Conklin had perfected her technique of being winsome, dumb and sexy all at the same time, she hoofed obscurely in the choruses of several musicals, played in half a dozen inferior legitimate shows without exciting much remark. She was born 26 years ago in Dobbs Ferry. N. Y. Last summer she married a Wall Streeter named James Daniel Thompson. Less attractive on the screen than behind footlights, she appeared in The President Vanishes and One-Way Ticket. Champagne is her favorite drink...
...blob, but as an island universe containing a billion or more stars. Finally, at Harvard, the diameter of this star-galaxy was measured at some 10,000 light years, which unveiled it at last as a crown prince of the cosmos, third largest among known spiral nebulae, inferior only to long, loose Messier 33 and the Great Nebula in Andromeda. Because of its nearness Dr. Shapley put it in the local supergalaxy which includes the Milky Way, Messier 33, the Andromeda nebula, the Large and Small Clouds of Magellan...
...second place merely to quote "no crew will be worse than Harvard" gives entirely the wrong inference. What he expressed in effect was that, with an Olympic year in the offing, no crew is Harvard's inferior on paper, and that no crew will be a "set-up" during the season...
...Stag At Eve" which a few years ago made quite a sensation with its robust and not too polite humor was followed by a series of inferior imitations. The same publishers have brought out a new volume this season entitled "The Bedroom Companion or A Cold Nights Entertainment," which should prove in its own way a very popular successor. Written nominally for male consumption, one may easily predict that it will have universal feminine appeal, or at least more than it should...
...Central provided the road's bankers accepted one of his proposals. In addition to its RFC debt New York Central owes its bankers $65,000,000, payable on demand. New York Central notes held by Mr. Jones's RFC are due on fixed dates, hence are technically inferior to the bank loans. Mr. Jones wanted equality. One way to obtain it, suggested Mr. Jones, was to fund the road's short-term bank and Government debt with a big bond issue, the RFC subscribing one half, the bankers the other half...