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...capping the great Sunday night radio vaudeville show. For its contracted year on the air, The Circle will cost more than $2,000,000, or about as much as it would cost (retail) to pave the way from Manhattan to Hollywood with boxes of Corn Flakes. Of this colossal pile, about $15,000 goes for its hour of radio time each week (10-11 EST) and some $25,000 a week for talent. Last week The Circle was having trouble with its expensive segments...
...Bailey contends that the original "You'd be surprised!" were written as "news flashes" in slangy Hellenistic Greek and Aramaic, that they should be rendered today in journalese. Thus he translates "Good Samaritan" as "good sport," "wise virgins" as "smart girls," "laying up a treasure" as "making a pile," "repent" as "get wise to yourself," "Give us our daily bread" as "Give us good bread, fresh daily." Dr. Bailey's Gospels variously call miracles "the breaks," "doing wonders" and "indications...
Lincoln Steffens once called Boston the most corrupt city in the U. S. During the past eight years the Boston political machine ruled State as well as city. Last week Massachusetts' new Governor, cowcatcher-chinned Leverett Saltonstall, began the Augean task of purging Massachusetts of corruption. First pile into which he plunged his shovel was the State Education Department...
...monstrous halfwit, who absent-mindedly crushes the life out of small rodents because he likes to feel their fur; before the final act has run its macabre course, Lennie has so perfected the fine art of strong arm caressing that he smothers the boss's daughter in a pile...
...Associated Press, "students began pushing parked cars into the streets and at one point a box used to store sand was overturned, and a free-for-all sand fight started." Now, in their immaturity, these Elis were striking at the very root of two hallowed institutions: the WPA sand pile project and the old New Haven custom of parking on the side-walk...