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When Phoneman Moore married Schoolteacher Mabel B. T. Clark (his second wife) six months ago, her first task was to unravel the mysteries of a front-hall panel studded with 28 pushbuttons, representing the overflow of her husband's mechanical talents and his preoccupation with the front door. Push one button and the door opens long enough to admit one visitor, then slams shut. Push it twice and a party of six can slip in without getting nipped. For crowds, a second button holds the door open indefinitely. For salesmen, truculent folk and enemies, a special button flips...
...looked like a good cage outfit, able to give and take with the best of them in a knockdown battle. The spirit and will to win on this year's squad is amazing. "Regardless of the outcome," says Wes Fesler, "we won't be outfought by any one." An overflow crowd jammed into the Athletic Building Wednesday night, probably to get a look at Gus Broberg, but no one man dominated that game. Two high-class teams put on an entertaining show, and there will be more of the same thing, served up on the third floor in the Harvard...
...persistent were these rumors, and so long undenied, that civilians began to discuss openly such things as: "Have you heard that things are going badly in the North? That there have been 70,000 dead and wounded-so many casualties that the wounded overflow from Leningrad to Moscow? Have you heard that the soldiers have no gloves and thin shoes-though the Government told us that we civilians must put up with our scarcity of clothes so that the defenders of revolution might lack nothing? Have you heard that the Finns have driven onto Russian soil at the very place...
...social sciences are sociology, economics and political science; part of psychology (attitudes, traits, abilities, collective behavior) and cultural (as distinguished from physical) anthropology. They overflow the bounds of science into law, history, education, linguistics. *Writing on the racetrack information racket last week, Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler observed: "Chicago has been so rotten for years that the town may seem to be abandoned and utterly without any will to turn square, but, for the first time in the modern history of the city, there are some stirrings of conscience and civic decency...
...weather is apt to be bad, and the price is often regarded as exorbitant. But despite all that, an overflow crowd flocked into the Stadium today. Most of the general public was seated somewhere behind the goalposts, but if there were more of these seats they would always be gobbled up quickly...