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...hastily up the steps of Widener Library, swishes through the turnstiles, rounds the marble stairways in stride, and finally deposits an overnight book on the Reading Room desk. The return journey is completed with equal haste, minus a few tedious and precious minutes while the unsmiling book inspector carefully Philo Vances every brief case, lawyers bag, and simple booksatchel. Such expenditure of energy and valuable pre-nine-o'clock time is not only highly inconvenient but unnecessary...
...Brenholts '33Ralph Edward H. Riddle '37Venturemed James A. E. Wood '37Luce Ernest D. Haseltine, Jr. '33Jasper Robert G. Reed '36Merrythought Henry Lloyd '37Mrs. Merrythought Raymond N. Svoboda '36Michael Thomas C. Hunt '36Tim Willard H. Griffin '37George Mark H. Cornell '37Humphrey William H. Jeffrey, Jr. '36Host Robert L. Scott '38Princess Philo F. Willets '36Tapster Howard H. Bristol '38Barber T. Walter Hardy '37Boy John T. Dunton...
...Philo Sherman Bennett Prize of $50 for the best essay discussing the principles of free government was assigned to Russell G. Olsen, '35, of Chicago, III., for an essay on "Popular Sovereignty and the Political Theories of Robert Parsons...
...research, it refuses in the U. S. to emerge from the laboratory. With either the Zworykin iconoscope (RCA-Victor) or the Farnsworth cold-cathode dissector tube "high-definition" images equal in clarity to home cinema and 6 by 8 inches in size can be transmitted. Blond, young Philo Taylor Farnsworth, who rose from obscurity with the help of San Francisco bankers, has leased his system to England and Germany where broadcasting is in government hands. Currently television is regularly broadcast from Berlin...
Remember the Day (by Philo Higley & Philip Dunning; Philip Dunning, producer) is a fragile, Tarkingtonian tale of the pangs of childhood, in which are to be seen the growing or just-grown offspring of some notable stage folk. The cast includes the late William Hodge's daughter Martha, Ed Wynn's son Keenan, Author-Producer Dunning's daughter Virginia, Moffat Johnston's son Peter and John Drew Devereaux (grandson). Mr. Dunning has had a sign placed over the stage door: "Through These Portals Pass the Most Unspoiled Children in the World...