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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Local newspapers have been working on the story of payments for retired Harvard men in the lower brackets for approximately two years, or the length of time that the plan has been under consideration...
Eight weeks is the normal length of the competition, but men of outstanding ability are often admitted after a shorter period has elapsed. Members of the Editorial Board make every effort in the early weeks of the competition to weed out those candidates who lack any particular promise, so that the time wasted by both the editors and the neophytes is kept at a minimum...
Come and Get It (Samuel Goldwyn) gives Actor Edward Arnold, recently seen as Diamond Jim Brady and General John Sutter, another subject for his full-length screen portraiture of hearty, colorful U. S. types. Lifted this time from Edna Ferber fiction instead of history, the subject is Bernard Glasgow, Wisconsin lumber millionaire. The result, against a background first of lumber camps and small-town saloons, later of early 20th-century urban plutocracy, is an extraordinarily warm and lively picture of one of the few romantic aspects of the U. S. which the cinema has so far neglected...
...their attitude but the forehanded Communist Party reached last week the shrewd conclusion that a marriage of the King & Mrs. Simpson would advance its interests by setting the middle classes to quarreling among themselves. Accordingly the sole British Communist M. P., Comrade William ("Willie") Gallacher, delivered himself at length to reporters in the lobby of the House of Commons. Not a word of this was printed in the United Kingdom, but Mr. Gallacher said...
Stroked by George S. Lewis '88, the Varsity lightweights defeated the second 150-pound crew by a little over a length Friday afternoon. William P. Rogers, Jr. '39 stroked the second crew. The race was rowed over a three-quarter mile distance from the M.I.T. boathouse to the Harvard Bridge...