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Tied up with fact and theory is the dictum of Prof. Maud Slye, Chicago mouse-breeding geneticist: that cancer of the breast runs in families. Also tied up with all this is the probability that, if castration actually prevents mammary cancer, the operation must be performed at least three years before the disease is expected to break...
William Welch '38, does brilliantly in his unsavory role of villain. His makeup is a triumph in depravity; his every gesture reeks of wickedness. Prof. Jones, having once played this very same role in a stock company, must be well pleased in his disciple. Another piece of really brilliant acting is turned in by Richard F. Rabenold '39 in a rather minor part, that of the grubbing pawn broker. Charles Tuttle '37 is both lovely and affecting as the long suffering heroine. But Howard Bristol '38 as her mother is a veritable revelation in matronly dignity. The actors...
WHEN James T. Farrell studied at the University of Chicago in 1923 he used to hand in thousand words in an almost illegible longhand to Prof. Jim Weber Linn. Desciphering difficult under graduate handwriting is tiresome, but the professor read young Farrell's stuff with great interest. To the black haired Irish kid from Chicago's Blue Island Avenue, he gave encouragement, out of which ultimately came four grim, first-class novels of life on Chicago's South Side. The fourth, A World I Never Made, has just been published. The world James Farrell has lived in for 31 years...
...childish, but a Senior Society or an Eating Club is sacred . . . that whoever interests himself in progressivism or radicalism probably hasn't bathed for weeks, that a Phi Beta Kappa winner is either a major trickster or a greasy grind, and no compromise about it; that a prof under forty-five is a fellow who couldn't make a business success in the boom era, while a prof over forty-five is a harmless oracle . . .", et cetera. But to these axioms if Mr. Hale will add that supremely ubiquitous one about ". . . it's the friendships you make," he will have...
...Chicago Tribune headlined Sir William's appointment: MIDWAY SIGNS LIMEY PROF TO DOPE YANK TALK...