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...personal appearance, Mrs. MacGibbon writes: "You no longer hear an employer say of his secretary, 'She doesn't look like much but how she can type!' He is more apt to say, 'I've got an A-1 secretary now and is she a looker!' " But: businessmen "wish their offices to have a dignified, not a sexy, atmosphere...
...several months' use by fairly heavy traffic the salted roads are standing up admirably, Arthur D. Little, Inc.'s Industrial Bulletin reported last week, and one stretch near Ithaca, N. Y. came through a pounding by nine inches of rain without visible effect. Developed by Cloyd Delson Looker, research director of International Salt Co., and Heinrich Ries, Cornell University geologist, the treatment makes clay hard like concrete, retards evaporation so that the surface remains moist and firm, provides an almost nonskid track. The cost per mile ($1,200) is about a third that of asphalt, one-twentieth that...
...High Altar in Phoenix Park the people of Belfast gave a fine Irish linen altar-cloth. Four of the canopy bearers were to come from the north of Ireland where Protestants predominate. Many a Protestant looker-on was expected, if only to hear Tenor John McCormack, Papal Count, sing the Panis Angelicus of César Franck. In the Mass also was to figure the holy bell of St. Patrick which, old, rusty, looking much like a modern cowbell, can still jingle weakly...
...Follette was three, he watched his father, the late great Robert Marion La Follette, inaugurated as Governor at Madison. Last week on the same spot, without fuss or celebration, "Phil" La Follette took the oath of office which made him the State's youngest Governor. An interested on-looker was Robert Marion La Follette 3rd, aged 4, the new Governor's son, who is already being coached to follow the family tradition in politics...
Receiving lines may receive, and advisers may advise, and Deans may be their own helpful, admonishing selves, but for the Freshman College dies not really begin until the football candidates are called out. This afternoon Coach Casey will meet his Freshman gridiron host at the Soldiers Field Looker Building. Over a hectic weekend Harvard has been giving the Freshmen plenty: now there is an opportunity for the Freshmen to give something to Harvard...