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...less profound level, Harvard will reflect the nationwide spurt of interest in social and sporting activities. Publications, literary and otherwise, should enjoy a banner year. The football team appears headed for one of its most successful seasons in several years, and the announcement of a new seating plan by the H.A.A. should increase the enjoyment of the spectators...
...workman with none of the Babe's color and crowd appeal, drills out line-drive homers by main force. This week he was slightly ahead of the Babe's 1927 pace. But to keep up with it, Mize will have to put on a mighty late-season spurt. In setting the record, Ruth hit 24 homers in his last 45 games...
...some areas," said Barber Bert Oakley, "my new shop would scare the trade away." But not in fashionable Westwood, a Cadillac's spurt away from Hollywood. With searchlights, clouds of soap bubbles, and a few cinemactor customers (Allan Jones and Pat O'Brien) to give it atmosphere, the grand opening of "the world's swankiest tonsorial parlor" last week drew thousands of spectators...
...ports Jim never heard of often write to ask him how it's coming on. Every year Britain's newspaper boys come over to get a birthday-celebration spread in the Sunday features. The publicity Jim got at the eighth birthday party gave his business such a spurt that Downey's is closed two days a week now for lack of stock. "Sure the extra rest will do the boys no harm," Jim said last week, but he won't settle the strike. "If I can," he insists, "I'll will it to my successors...
Holidays for Shut-Ins. The House seemed as muscle-bound as the Senate. In its major spurt of activity it passed and sent to the Senate a bill to continue sugar controls until next November. Then it slumped back to await consideration of the long overdue tax bill, modified in committee by the G.O.P. leadership. The 20% across-the-board reduction was flattened out; the proposed cuts now range from 30% for net incomes less than $1,000 to 10½% for those over...