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Hero of the most gigantic U. S. betting stories is the late John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, who is reputed to have wagered that sum on the outcome of a race between two raindrops down a Pullman window. By last week it appeared that such stories may soon have a new hero in the person of Owner Art Rooney of the Pittsburgh (pro football) Pirates...
...Joseph Heifetz, 28, that he was the only man for the role. A follower of the Stanislavsky method of living a part, he so thoroughly transformed himself into a tottering ancient that his friends were alarmed. Most successful Soviet film since Chapayev, Baltic Deputy has been seen by 80 million Russians since its release last spring...
Thin Ice (20th Century-Fox). Second picture (and a great improvement over One in a Million) to show cinemagoers Sonja Henie's glittering skill on skates...
...idea in the way of reclamation and the development of water power ever formulated is now in process of development. The idea contemplates turning the Columbia River back into its old bed in Grand Coulee, by the construction of a giant dam, the reclamation of between one and two million acres of land in Grant, Adams and Franklin counties. . . ." The prophecy has been borne out by the New Deal's Grand Coulee...
This building, the Widener Library, contains approximately 2,500,000 books, while every year we add approximately 120,000 to keep up with the newer volumes published. The other million or so books of the University are housed in the various special libraries of the Houses and various departments of Harvard...