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...period, and those living far away must leave their happy firesides on New Year's Day. Of course Dean's Listers arrange their own calendars. But even their stolen bliss is soured a little when they compare their indolence to the industry of companions, and think of the accumulating pile of work...
Arriving in his lodgings or rooms at the beginning of term, unknown, as he thinks, in an unknown town, he finds a pile of letters awaiting him, many in penny-halfpenny envelopes, addressed in a charming hand. Messrs. Cutthroat hope he will have a good term, and will be delighted to see him at their establishment as soon as he can call (lounge suits from eight guineas). Miss Monica Hipline wants to teach him to dance, Mr. Andrew McLewis wants to lend him money, all sorts of unknown friends are anxious of help him. "It's not your money...
Jack Kelly's business career began as messenger boy for a contractor who was building John Wanamaker's store. In the course of his duties Jack Kelly took a four-story fall off the steel framework, landed in a pile of cinders. Subsequently he became a bricklayer, made a fortune as a contractor for brick work. He raised such structures as Philadelphia's Packard Building, the new Gimbel store and, appropriately, the Penn Athletic Club...
...Lowndes County, Ala. State police last week raided the headquarters of a Negro sharecroppers' union whose striking members had ganged non-union Negro sharecroppers. Police claimed to have found "a pile of Communistic literature." A mob of white farmers mistook Newshawk William Bennett of the Montgomery Advertiser, whose redheaded editor is Julian Hall's Uncle Grover, for a "Red agitator." The mob thoroughly manhandled Bennett before he could identify himself...
Most famed of all Cunard White Star liners was the lithe, speedy Mauretania, scrapped four months ago for economy. Scarcely less famed is the Cunard White Star Olympic, which last week started over the same course to the junk pile because she, too, has outlived her usefulness...