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Voyage Surprise (French). Writer Jacques Prévert (Children of Paradise') and Director Pierre, his brother, following René Clair, use their highly sophisticated talents on the style perfected in the old Mack Sennett and Chaplin comedies. The story: a slap-happy cross-country French tour, complicated by saboteurs, stolen crown jewels, and burlesqued pursuers. The picture has an air of reckless and generally happy improvisation. It fails to develop and pay off its comic points brilliantly enough, but it is thoroughly enjoyable...
Crimson hospitality received a slap in the face from the direction of the Radcliffe Quadrangle yesterday whence came reports that even the 'Cliffedwellers for years have had an unofficial "Cherry Key" to entertain their visiting athletes and have been doing quite nicely, thank...
This was the first official slap at the ingenious new method of raising money which had bobbed up, via newspaper advertisement, in several U.S. cities. All of the schemes involved U.S. bonds and the same "money-back-in-ten-years" guarantee, plus the prospects of profits on the loan. But SEC's action in Philadelphia would not necessarily put a crimp in them. Two other money-raisers in New York got around SEC by filing details of their schemes (registering) with the agency. So long as they told all the facts, SEC could do nothing to stop them...
Back Again. In Spokane, Wash., Alzar Arndt finally had the cast taken off his broken back after three months, went out to celebrate, got a slap on the back, went off to the hospital to have his back fixed again...
...sponsors; but it is doubtful if it will attract any readers who do not already agree with the premises assumed by the AYD. Geoff White and Bill Labov in their misleading account of the Club 100 incident of last year go out of their way to take a slap at clubmen: "The club men form a very definite class of dwindling importance at Harvard, who only occasionally come out of their isolated routine to demonstrate their vicious and decayed mentalities." This same article demonstrates the authors' impatience and scorn for any methods of reform which do not embody publicity, action...