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...Strawbridge's plan, refinement is the keynote, for she proposes "no spectacular crusade, no public meetings, no newspaper publicity-nothing of that sort at all. My thought is simply that if people whose wealth and position clothe them with the power of example can be induced to set an example, as Mrs. Mc-Lean is trying to do, we could be of inestimable aid to the President...
...Ziegfeld: "I am going to do for the screen what I have done for the stage." Of the stage he said: "There is too much dirt and nakedness in revues nowadays, and the public is about fed up on them. . . . The sketches now used as black-outs? are the sort that in pre-Prohibition days found their origin in barrooms, and I consider it a disgrace to be associated with a revue producer at the present time. Unless the Follies can be distinguished from the current conception of the revue, I shall abandon them as I have the revue...
...late John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, famed Manhattan and Chicago financier, was a fantastic gambler.? But unlike most of his sort he left a large fortune. Last week the Gates fortune was making a hurly-burly in the Gatesian town of St. Charles, Ill. There a new post-office is to be built. Mrs. Delora Angell Norris, niece of the late Mr. Gates, who received most of the Gates estate and controls some $80,000,000 (Texas Oil Co.) wants it built on the East bank of the Fox River, where she owns a community house, a cinema...
...granted that the twenty-five men chosen under the present rule at the end of their. College course would be selected largely on the basis of the honors gained in their field. The growing emphasis upon tutorial work and non-course study seemed to demand that excellence in this sort of work should be rewarded by Phi Beta Kappa to the fullest extent allowed by the existing rules...
...Popular recognition of the value of tutorial work has become far too general among Harvard men for them to bother with any very vigorous attack upon a society which still places its emphasis upon a form of effort which has always been the delight of a certain serious sort of adolescent mind...