Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Petticoat Fever (by Mark Reed; Alfred de Liagre Jr. & Richard Aldrich, producers) starts its merry nonsense when a rising curtain discloses handsome silver-voiced Dennis King (Richard of Bordeaux) lying on a couch in a Labrador radio station talking to his Eskimo handyman (Chinese Peter Goo Chong). Actor King impersonates Dascom Dinsmore, an errant remittance man, who has not seen a pretty woman in the two years he has been in Labrador. He is irritably contemplating the rigors of another long winter without female society when his shanty suddenly takes on the atmosphere of a Long Island week-end house...
...Baush's case was the Stamford one of Cummings & Lockwood, of which Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings used to be a partner. Lawyer Cummings has had a feud with Aluminum since 1925 when he argued a case against the company and lost. At the long Hartford trial Lawyer Mark W. Norman of Mr. Cummings' old firm, and other Baush attorneys, once again sought to prove two stock charges: 1) that Aluminum tried to monopolize interstate trade in virgin aluminum through a price agreement with foreign importers of the metal; 2) that by taking enormous profits from the sale...
...Urbana, Ill., scheduled to lecture the Exchange Club on Mark Twain, University of Illinois English Professor H. G. Paul stood up, faced the Club, looked, then stared at his notes, collected himself, delivered a splendid lecture on Abraham Lincoln...
...Varsity meet Cunningham of Yale set a new high mark for the dive to break the dual record, while the Crimson captain, Roy Wallace, equaled the dual meet record by winning the 100-yard free style event...
...Great American Novel has not yet been written. Herman Melville did several chapters of it, Walt Whitman some chapter headings, Henry James an appendectiform footnote. Mark Twain roughed out the comic bits, Theodore Dreiser made a prehistoric-skeleton outline, Sinclair Lewis, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway all contributed suggestions. Last week it began to look as if Thomas Wolfe might also be at work on this hypothetical volume. His first installment (Look Homeward, Angel) appeared five years ago, his second (Of Time and the River) last week. In the interval Author Wolfe had written some 2,000,000 words...