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Outside in the rain Manhattan traffic ground endlessly by with scarcely a pause where small boys cluttered the sidewalk under the big electric sign of Madison Square Garden. But inside it was a different world. Harlem Negroes, East Side Jews, a rag, tag & bobtail from the four corners of New York jostled Park Avenue socialites in the corridors. A dozen languages merged into a humming background for the sharp cries of men selling balloons, noisemakers, dolls, mickeymice, pink lemonade gone modern in bottles, popcorn, peanuts (5˘ outside, 10˘ within), frankfurters and colored parasols. Over all sounded the neighing of horses...
...play begins rather slowly and the tendency to moralize is perhaps so apparent. But Tom Powers puts he show over with such refreshing naturalness and wit that one cannot help becoming enthusiastic over his worth, Helen Rag as Mrs. Mitchell, Francis Compton as the impossible Helford and Shepperd Strudwick rejoicing in the name of Prince Ivan Gregorievifel Sneojaganeenoff, head an able supporting cast...
...like the way your magazine clicked on young Mr. Cord. This human dynamo deserves everything you said about him. As far as some bluenoscs giving your rag the quit, you know this is a lot of bologny. This reason, well, where would they get the news as TIME gives it to them. ''Try and get it.'' A little dynamic expression will not harm the best of us. In fact, there is a lot of us that need a stick of dynamite set off under us these days...
...piano recital, which will be in the Large Common Room of the Union at 7.15 o'clock, is to be given by William Deitelbaum '35. He will present a program of modern music, which includes a novellette number, "Dizzy Fingers," "Doing the New York," and "Tiger Rag...
Scientists have sought in vain a practical chemical preservative for newspapers. The New York Times prints 250 copies per day of its regular edition on rag paper for $100 per year for subscribers. The New York Public Library coats with thin Japan tissue every page of every paper in its files published since 1916. The Library of Congress keeps its 80,000 bound volumes in a room at 70° temperature and 40% humidity. Suggestion by Dr. Buck: photograph news pages in reduced facsimile on special long-lasting paper...