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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Visitors to San Francisco's Golden Gate Fair last week: Artist Rockwell Kent, Author Damon Runyon, Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde. Said she: "I'm not sure I want to look at the World of Tomorrow, considering some phases of the world of today." Pre-visitor to the New York World's Fair: Cinemactor George Arliss...
...Calgary, Alberta, the Reverend H. M. Hamnett planned to have one of his big toes cut off. Announced reason: the toe was grafted from the amputated foot of a German during the World War, since the European crisis has been "kicking...
...Years ago, discouraged by debts and annual babies, John started drinking "like a hog in a bucket of slops." But when Sarah drank cotton-root tea to bring on a nearly fatal miscarriage, John was sobered. "God knows, Sarah," he said, "I love the brats but I'm worried about how to look atter them." Next time he took to drink, Sarah "suddenly took a notion that I could beat the stuffin out of him, and I did. I got a barrel stave and I turned him across the table bench and I blistered his rump...
...years ago, Leo Calvin Rosten, 31, Polish-born teacher, humorist, researcher, social scientist, won pseudonymous fame as Leonard Q. Ross, author of The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N. When that book appeared, Author Rosten was in Washington, working on a serious journalistic survey, The Washington Correspondents. Sly Author Rosten enjoyed hearing correspondents chuckle over Hyman Kaplan, ask who Leonard Q. Ross might be. Afraid they might not take his research job seriously if they knew, Author Rosten kept...
Only 179 points went to the Harvard Yacht Club in its attempt to capture the Morse Challenge Cup, from M. I. T., who checked up a score of 242 in the annual regatta held on the Charles River Basin over the week...