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Resolutions were passed by large majorities supporting President Roosevelt's peace message to Italy and Germany, and backing the Thomas Amendment to the Neutrality Act. Several hundred signatures were obtained on a giant postcard which has been sent to Key Pittman, chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, as a token of backing for the Thomas Amendment...
Previous fears concerning Stratton's whereabouts were quelled in the middle of last week when his roommate received a reassuring postcard from him, but no word was heard after that until Saturday. The cause of his absence is not known...
Last week in the picture-postcard setting that makes California's Santa Anita Park the most beautiful race track in the U. S., 50,000 turf addicts gathered for the rich Santa Anita Derby, first of this year's three $50,000 races for three-year-olds.* With the exception of William Ziegler's elegant El Chico, No. 1 Glamor Horse of last year's juveniles, who was not permitted to make a public appearance so early in the season, practically all the top-crust three-year-olds were in the parade to the post. Favorite...
Utrillo partisans could not deny that he often uses postcards as departing points for paintings of Paris street scenes which he knows well. But they could think of other Utrillo inspirations besides postcards. Among the earliest were lumps of sugar soaked in absinthe which his mother tossed him when he was ten to shut him up. By the age of 15 he was drawing steady inspiration from gin and whiskey bottles. By the '305 he had moved on to lamp fuel, mentholated alcohol, petroleum, benzine, eau de cologne, ether, with opium and hashish on the side. In 1936 London...
Since the new two week limit on books announced last June, the library has been encouraging renewal of books, which may be done by postcard or telephone. In the filling system when a book is renewed, another slip is stapled onto the original card to nullify the first notch, and a new notch is put in it for the new day on which it falls...