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...childhood in Jamestown (1920 pop. 38,917), but managed to see very little of it. Mostly, she inhabited a dream world peopled by glamorous alter egos. Sometimes she imagined herself to be a young lady of great poise named Sassafrassa, who combined the best features of Pearl White, Mabel Normand and Pola Negri. Another make-believe identity was Madeline, a beauteous cowgirl who emerged from the pages of Zane Grey's melodramatic novel, The Light of Western Stars, To get authentic background for Madeline, young Lucille corresponded with the chambers of commerce of Butte and Anaconda, Mont. She read...
...Amygdalectomy" (literally, removal of almonds) has slipped into the dictionaries because medieval medicine men, looking at tonsils, were reminded of almonds. The Cleveland notice was posted by Dr. Normand L. Hoerr, professor of anatomy at Western Reserve University and managing editor of the New Gould Medical Dictionary, published this week (Blakiston Co.; $8.50). Dr. Hoerr thinks that all such terms should be discontinued. Also ripe for cutting, he felt, were terms built on researchers' names. Example: the New Gould has no entry for Bright's Disease (chronic nephritis), mentions it only in a note on Richard Bright...
...Normand R. Cartier, instructor in Romance Languages and Literatures, has been appointed to an assistant professorship in that department, Provost Buck announced over the weekend...
Thirty Freshmen have been invited to participate in a return engagement of the step test for physical efficiency that they failed to pass six weeks ago, Normand W. Fradd, assistant director of Physical Training, announced yesterday...
...Mack Sennett (here working at Mabel Normand's feet) was as great an originator, in his own way, as Griffith. His comedies, always improvised on the spot, gave a vast, fresh native energy to the ancient traditions of clowning. They also made the law laughable and legs lucrative, were a training course for half the biggest stars of the '20s, and the source and schoolroom for the comedies of Rene Clair, the brilliant experiments of Preston Sturges...