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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stars Remain Actor Webb, with infinite boredom, takes part in a great deal of vague talk about a hypothetical New York State political situation, in which the forces of Cynthia Hope's (Helen Gahagan's) grandfather, a die-hard Republican out to smash a pack of radical cubs at the polls, are lined up against the faction of Frederick Holden (Ben Smith), who thinks grandfather and his allies are sociological contemporaries of the brontosaurus. A lazy neutral, Actor Webb twits grandfather's associates by inquiring if they think it quite sanitary, not to change their convictions more...
Five Freshmen led a pack of 31 cross country men home in the University Handicap meet yesterday over the River course. A. J. Horne '40 with a lead of three minutes came in first by a margin of a foot over J. D. Lightbody, who had a start of two and a half minutes over the winner. The third man, W. H. Magill, was trailing the leaders by a matter of a few hundred yards. The winner's time...
Spending Issue. Along the Nominee's four-mile route from the railroad station at Pittsburgh to Forbes Field, National League baseball park, wildly cheering crowds were lined so thick that a vanguard of 60 motorcycle policemen had frequently to push a way through the pack. When the Roosevelt procession reached the ball park, every one of its 45,000 seats was taken and some 30,000 other citizens were jammed on the field, in the aisles, outside the gates. Not since he appeared at Philadelphia last June to accept his nomination had newshawks heard anything like the roar which...
Class over and lunch with friend in Lowell House, cigarette before and after dessert and during coffee. Too many cigarettes, have to get back to pack-a-day. Tutor at two, thesis subject not yet selected, think it will be Fenimore Cooper, haven't got it exactly. Assignment for next week Miracle Plays. Should have done them sophomore year. The Vagabond has a field of concentration but he consistently ignores...
...Tried to duplicate the experiments in telepathy and clairvoyance of Duke University's Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine, who in a great number of carefully controlled laboratory tests has apparently demonstrated that ordinary people can learn to "read" an unseen pack of cards much better than could be explained by chance (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934). In this endeavor Mr. Price reported no success...