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...women's figure skating championship. By the time the Colledges left the rink, Mrs. Colledge had been fired with the ambition of making her daughter as good a skater as Mrs. Vinson's Maribel, who had promised to send small Cecilia a pair of skates she had outgrown. The skates fitted Cecilia exactly. In them, under her mother's careful supervision, she began a unique campaign of which last week's victory was the climax...
...believes further that in this day and generation it is absurd to try to maintain the tradition of royal intermarriages, with all the physical as well as political disabilities likely to result from that outgrown custom. "His brother, the Duke of York, has been extremely happy and fortunate in his marriage to a lady of the people, a commoner, socalled...
...Railroad "Behind the Scenes" Posters such as this in Chicago last week testified to a brand new development in U. S. railroad sales technique. It is traditional for small boys to want to be locomotive engineers. U. S. railroads have lately discovered that many an adult male has never outgrown that ambition. Result in the past three months has been an epidemic of "Off the Beaten Path" railway tours whose success has been as immediate and as surprising to railroad men as was the popularity of the first snow train...
After grace and handshakings President Gannon entered on his duties. With 7,300 students, Fordham has outgrown its grassy 75-acre campus in The Bronx, spilled over into four floors of Manhattan's Woolworth Building. Promptly the new president announced that sprawling Fordham had finished its era of expansion, would concentrate on extracurricular activities to enrich campus life, bring students and faculty closer together. Said he: "Having a big registration is nothing to boast about. We won't add a single student to the rolls during the next six years...
...Poor Little Rich Girl (Twentieth Century-Fox). Shirley Temple pictures, emerging with the regularity of the seasons, have one point in common. All are minutely tailored to suit her requirements. In this procedure, the weak point is that Shirley Temple's requirements have now outgrown the ingenuity of her purveyors. Her current summer issue, in doing justice to the Temple torch song and tap dance, neglects the Temple talent for emotional acting...