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...Manhattan's swank Park Lane Hotel one noon last week rolled a truck bearing two pure-bred Holstein-Friesian cows named Nysia Maggie Titanic de Kol and Nysia Maid Gertrude. Two white-robed attendants tethered them in fresh hay in the hotel's garden, then painstakingly inspected their gleaming hides & hoofs for specks of dirt. To make news for a charity benefit the two Nysias were that night to be milked by Manhattan's lushest debutantes. First prize: silver cigaret & vanity case. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon the more serious girls arrived to inspect...
...average run of British motor accidents-about 150 per week-provided Major Hore-Belisha with a terrific TRAFFIC CRISIS. Dashing about to inspect the terrain on which no citizen's life could be considered safe, the major was photographed on his motorcycle as a sort of Mussolini of Motoring. He decreed barber-striped safety islands and chevron-striped crossing lanes. In order to restore to London what he called "the priceless boon of sleep" he issued a dread ukase that no horn may be sounded between 1.1:30 p. m. and 7 a. m., another compelling horns...
They go out to the barn to inspect a sound-recording gadget he has invented while the pressagent-chaperon anxiously asks: "Is there any hay out there?" Carole comes back declaiming: "This is the greatest thing for pictures since the Warner Brothers stretched forth their hands and said, 'Let there be Sound.' " Deciding to stay all night, Carole appears for dinner in a blinding dress apparently made of tinfoil, determines to take the young man to Hollywood...
...menus are never the same on any given day in any two units of the dining hall system...A visiting committee of twenty women, mothers of students, (it is even done to our mothers)... inspect the menus, talk to the students, eat in the dining halls about once a week, and offer suggestions to the management... Menus are so diversified that there is no sense of sameness. No one can predict what will be served on a particular day of the week except that fish will always be available on Fridays. At frequent intervals a special steak or chicken dinner...
...Craster, Bodley's Librarian from the Bodleian Library at Oxford, will be in Cambridge today to inspect the Widener Library. Additions and repairs are to be made ou the Bodley Library, and Mr. Craster has come to the United States to study the construction of numerous American libraries and gain some worthwhile ideas to take back to England...