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...people in the U. S. have been struck by cancer. Most, of them died of it. Last week the knowledge doctors have gleaned from these victims was collected in three massive volumes: Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases (Hoeber; $36). Edited by Drs. George Thomas Pack and Edward Meakin Livingston of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital, this pooled knowledge of top-flight specialists gave doctors a storehouse of practical information...
Present head of the firm is Solomon's son, plump, jovial Abraham Livingston ("A. L.") Gump, who resembles one of his own Buddhas. He took over in 1906, just before the earthquake. Same year he hired Oriental Expert Daniel Newell, rebuilt the store and its reputation for Oriental art together. Now nearly blind, A. L. is still a shrewd judge of jade by touch. He knows the store so well that he can guide important visitors around and comment on each object, without giving away his handicap...
...reproducing the saloons and docks of New York of every age. Alice Faye feels right at home in her own tavern, having at last become an owner. Her thwarted love for Fulton descends upon Fred MacMurray, an uninspired but satisfactory waterfront bum who turns into a magnificent shipbuilder. Harriet Livingston, in the delightful person of Brenda Joyce, is the recipient of the best remark of a fair script, when Fulton, self introduced, says "Miss Livingston, J presume." Incidentally, they get married...
Tall, silver-maned James F. O'Connor of Livingston, Mont, is a great spender, a great friend of the farmer, a man who cares not a fig for a balanced budget. He is also an isolationist, fought the Neutrality Bill which was intended to benefit the British and French. One day last week Congressman O'Connor delivered himself of a long speech favoring big WPA appropriations, increased farm benefits. Next morning he was horrified to see himself quoted in the Congressional Record as saying: "Let us not forget that allies must be provided with beef...
...weeks the Neanderthal brow of Tammany Congressman Sol Bloom had been furrowed. Now he was beaming. Only yesterday he had discovered what he had been looking for: the grave of one Brockholst Livingston (1757-1823), in Manhattan's Trinity Churchyard. Sol Bloom stumped into the marble vastness of the U. S. Supreme Court brimming with his good news: that he had spotted the grave of every last Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court...