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...fought for Ford, with Conductor Victor Kolar, yellow-haired Maria Jeritza. 24 choristers. G. M. assembled its own orchestra, hired spectacular Leopold Stokowski to wave his pale hands over it and Tenor Richard Crooks to sing. Soloists will vary in the expensive radio bout. G. M. has a starry list of conductors. Ford will stick to Victor Kolar, Ossip Gabrilowitsch's hard-working associate, who conducted at A Century of Progress last summer. Ford's motives are divided: besides selling cars he wants to play patron to the hard-pressed Detroit Symphony...
...Election betting on Socialist-turned-Democrat Upton Sinclair plunged to even money. Forthwith the stocks of six big California enterprises listed on the New York Stock Exchange sloughed off $60,000,000 in total value in one day. The market value of the securities of California's three leading utilities has dropped $100,000,000 since the August primaries when Mr. Sinclair was nominated. A list of 20 California stocks (including preferreds) has dropped 16% in the last five weeks...
Short, rotund, with a greying golliwogg mop of hair, Einstein hates to wear a hat, likes to wander in the country or sail a small boat, plays the violin with concert skill. Last March he was put on the official Nazi black list, deprived of German citizenship. Though he has Swiss citizen ship, Einstein has lived in the U. S. since last autumn, goes each winter to work at the Flexner-directed Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. There he lives in the seclusion he likes, with his comfortable Hausfrau...
...arriving in Cambridge on one of the Associated Harvard Club scholarships are expected to keep their record at University Hall free from probation, attain Dean's List standing and provide themselves with jobs to cover the major expenses for the college year. Quite often the contrary is true, as a large majority of such men holding these awards come to Cambridge from southern or western high schools poorly equipped for the unfamiliar methods of study at Harvard. A substantial percentage go on probation at the November Hours and, with the additional burden of financial worries, are sorely pressed for chance...
...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 is offered. Besides the regular menu there is always an elaborate extra order list at additional cost...