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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workmanlike and worthy memorial, yet it falls short of the brilliance intended by its makers. The reason for this lapse is rather difficult to find, for the picture suffers from no definitely low spots. Perhaps it can best be laid at the door of its more than average length, which results in occasional drag...
...this lobby circulated with increasing vigor among its Senatorial friends and acquaintances. Three times a day Lobbyist Kennedy telephoned "Hacienda 13 F 11" at San Simeon to report progress, to receive instructions from his chief. Meantime the Hearstlings were aided by a great Voice booming from Detroit across the length & breadth of the land...
...from noon to 7 p. m., reputedly for $2,000 a week. All night, twice a week, he prepares a running comment for Fox Movietone News, reputedly for $500 a week.* Between times he makes talk for Universal's Going Places travelogs, puts in time on a full-length cinema on the Mt. Everest expedition, goes on lecture tours, tends a fur farm at his home in Pawling, N. Y., serves as toastmaster at innumerable banquets, writes bits of three new books at a time...
...Colony '37. In the 50-yard free style race Harvard suffered its only defeat when A. R. Bourne of McGill nosed out Bob Haskett '37 in the last ten yards. By doubling its lead in every lap, Harvard easily won the 400-yard relay by over half a length...
...Martyn Green, jester extraordinary, singer superb, funnyman par excellence, now connected with the D'Oyly Carte Gilbert and Sullivan opera company, discussed false teeth at some length before an audience of Harvard undergraduates yesterday afternoon...