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College students are bound to feel the pinch as authorities generally stiffen draft regulations to milk more and more men from deferred ranks into the military, a high draft official told the CRIMSON yesterday...
...those who like to pinch pennies in their own workshops, the build-it-yourself business had the widest assortment of models yet. On view were 38 different models put out by seven kit-boatmakers, ranging all the way from 8-ft. prams to cabin cruisers. U-Mak-It Products, which had 15 models on show, also puts out a kit for a 23-ft. cabin cruiser (see cut} for $844 without motor, a saving of about $1,000 on the readymade model. Depending on the size, a home builder could slice as much as 60% from the price...
Tony Vente, night superintendent of Phillips Brooks House and former Golden Gloves Champion, pinch-hit for Santa Claus at the annual P.B.H. children's party yesterday afternoon...
...Manhattan, at 25, she was broke and developing "a perfect passion for earning money, don't care much how I earn it." A fling at acting didn't help, but soon her stories under the name of Nancy Boyd broke the pinch of poverty. By 1920 magazines were competing for her poetry: "Oh, Lud! Have you noticed how Vanity Fair is featuring me of late? They just can't seem to go to print without me. And the New Republic is writing to me in longhand begging for a crumb of verse." From that time...
...heart and the lungs as well. The "Michigan heart," as Harper officials call Dr. Dodrill's machine, is built like a V12 engine: the second bank of six cylinders can do the work of the heart's right side. There is also an oxygenator to pinch-hit for the lungs. The whole machine has been tested on dogs, but there must be a lot more testing done before it satisfies surgeons generally as a safe substitute for the human body's most vital organs...