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...last slim chance that the bet could be won seemed to loom when Tsar Boris went officially to Rome (TIME, Jan. 13) to attend the wedding of Belgian Roman Catholic Princess Marie José to the heir of Italy. An audience was granted to His Majesty by Pope Pius XI. The Holy Father listened perhaps to amorous pleadings and arguments by the world's only Bachelor Tsar. But last week the bet was definitely lost. Ruefully at Sofia, His Excellency the Italian Minister?not a sure- thing better after all?drew his check for 50,000 drachma and sent it round...
...Brown nearly to desperation last year is felt quite as keenly now, though still more candidates appear with several of the qualifications of a pacesetter. Besides J.E. Lawrence '31, T.N. Perkins, Jr. '31, Swaim, and Watts, who are considered among the most likely possibilities for the post, three others loom as potential candidates. They are A.H. Parker '32 of last year's Freshmen, R.W. Pearson '31, who stroked both the class champions and the combination, and Sturges...
Bigelow-Sanford. Inventor of the power loom was Erastus B. Bigelow who became head of what is now the Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Co. (Massachusetts), oldest U. S. carpet makers. Last week the oldest carpet makers absorbed the oldest rug manufacturers, Stephen Sanford & Sons (New York) founded...
...stands for $500 in gold which the banker is supposed to have in his bank. Each of the other five players is dealt 20 cards from a 100 card deck divided into ten suits. Each suit stands for an industry, such as Coal Mine, Brickfield, Wagon Works, Loom, Pottery, Saw Mill, etc. During the course of the game, the Banker attempts to buy from the players all the cards of all the suits. As soon as he can absorb one entire suit, or establish a monopoly in that industry, he can add that suit, or that industry, to the assets...
Yellow-haired Frances Williams sings the show's best song, Bottoms Up, in her slithering, urgent voice. To this ditty Producer White dances a strenuous routine (successor to his Charleston, Black Bottom). The carnivals of Europe have inspired huge, mechanical grotesques which loom now and then behind the players - a shaggy Beast rolls its head and eyes while Beauty pirouettes; an enormous dummy jazz band swoops and sways. Meanwhile Willie Howard talks Jewish, and the Abbott dancers from Chicago tap dance on their toes. Ousted from the bed of a married woman, a clown exclaims : "Believe...