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Throughout most of this fiscal backing and filling Davis was busy practicing his theosophic belief that because Divine Providence had led him to money it was his holy duty to spend it. In 1926 he backed a Broadway play, The Ladder, for an old playwright schoolmate. Believing in its theme of reincarnation. Angel Davis stubbornly kept the play (a flop) going for two years, eventually admitted the public free. The whim cost him a cool $1,300,000 before he had had enough. Going back to Texas to drill for more oil, he watched the last of his capital disappear...
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' collected short stories have good claim to being a better book than her big bestseller, The Yearling. When the Whippoorwill contains eleven stories, including a novelette (Jacob's Ladder) which first put Florida's "scrub" back country on the map and Author Rawlings among the ranks of the South's best regional writers...
...stormy night last week John Seed, still strapped in his cast, tried again. This time he went in by a door, climbed a ladder to the belfry, there pried open a locked door with a four-foot crowbar. With two companions he tugged at the clapper for half an hour, at length pulled it loose. Next day he proudly confessed his theft. Crushed, the university waived its $30 fine...
Beginning his career in the Department as instructor of Music in 1908, Professor Hill has filled the successive positions on the academic ladder. He became a full professor in 1928, was chosen to fill the James E. Ditson chair in 1937, and has served as chairman of the Department of Music...
Four engine companies of two pieces each, two ladder trucks, a rescue truck, and most of the Cambridge police force jammed the center of the Square at 8 o'clock last night to extinguish a configuration in the bedroom of Miss V. M. Union of 20 Boylston Street...