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With "Ebb Tide" and "Double Wedding" the University currently presents a perfectly balanced program. In the former, ostensibly a Technicolored South Sea melodrama, Hollywood makes excursion into the realm of the tortured mind. The latter comprises an easy to take William Powell and Myrna Loy combination of slapstick and witty dialogue...
...turn their hands to bridge and the radio, the majority of the jobless professionals go south. Some are hired to accompany rich club members to their winter playgrounds. Some find comfortable berths at flourishing hotels. But a goodly portion embark on one of the most extraordinary tours in the realm of sport...
...between--the person who opens up the stacks to undergraduates who have a definite need, who has time to explain the situation because that is his only duty, who could bring Widener even further down out of the clouds of graduate and professorial research into the lowest realm of ordinary students...
...show of fun and frankness unusual in his stereotyped profession, a San Francisco pressagent lately wrote: "When you come right down to it, a great World's Fair is the architect's form of that good old American custom, the Binge. . . . He can work in the realm of pure fantasy without worrying much about his client's idea of how a building ought to look, because he is using (perhaps happily) impermanent materials and because his real client is the general public, and what the general public wants is not utility, but romance and beauty and drama...
...Robert Early Strawbridge Jr., a seven-goal player, son of the vice president of Philadelphia's Strawbridge & Clothier department store, became chairman of the Polo Association two years ago, he noted that the handicapping job was growing too big for Eastern riding breeches. Forthwith, the U. S. polo realm was divided into six parts (Northeastern, Southeastern, Central, Northwestern, Southwestern, Pacific Coast), and each part was permitted a representative on the Board of Governors. This year, for the first time, the recommendation of handicaps for its own member-players was taken over by a local committee in each section. Final...