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Charles Curtis, Medical Superintendent of the Grenfell Mission, last night told an audience of 150 in the Geographical Institute of the work of the organization which provides medical care, school and work for the inhabitants of Newfoundland and Labrador, where medical calls have to be made by dog sled over vast areas...
After a long, bitter legal battle during which Bubbleman Bowman spent most of his time scuttling around the Gulf of Mexico in a sea-sled, the Pennsylvania State supreme court upheld his reinstatement as president of Gum, Inc. last July. That month Gum, Inc. made $7,472, after six months' earnings of $49,000 on sales estimated at about $800,000. Bubbleman Bowman's only current worry is a suit by his estranged second wife, Ruth, who claims a verbal agreement to a half-interest in his holdings. Last week, after the first arguments were heard, Philadelphians believed...
...George Potter (Melvyn Douglas) who, also in love with Kay and aware that Gene already has a wife, joins the junket as chaperon. In Switzerland Kay and her companions have time to try everything from fancy skating, for which Claudette Colbert reveals unsuspected talent, to falling off a bob-sled at 60 m.p.h., before Gene's wife (Mona Barrie) appears at the ice bar of the Hotel St. Georg. This disrupts their holiday, forces Kay, back in Paris where her U. S. admirer has followed her, to decide which one of her suitors she will marry...
Columnist Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt (My Day) from Hyde Park, N. Y.: "At noon Anna and I went coasting. First we both used the same sled, which broke through the crust and landed us both head first in the snow. After this experience we coasted on separate sleds...
Winter sports run riot at the Fine Arts this week, restrained only by a tenuous plot and some inconsequential German dialogue. Brilliant performances of skiing, slalom (scooting downhill along sinuous paths among obstacles), ski-joring (skiing along the level with a horse doing the pulling), bob-sled racing, and skating are crammed into this virile, carefree picture called after one of the sports "Slalom...