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...sedate town of Palo Alto into frenzied gossip and wild surmise. The dead woman had been a popular Stanford co-ed before she married David A. Lamson, 31-year-old sales manager of the Stanford University Press. They were campus socialites, neighbors of Theodore Jesse Hoover, dean of Stan- ford's engineering school and Coolidgesque brother of the ex-President (see cut). Dr. Blake Colburn Wilbur, son of Stanford's President Ray Lyman Wilbur, was their close friend, best man at their wedding. Who could have killed Mrs. Lamson? Her husband? The Stanford campus could not think...
...Lois May her chance to get away from the life she hated. When Olly felt misunderstood, Jen made him understand that he was not. When the Janowskis settled their squalling Polish brood on a neighboring farm, it was Jen's tolerance that kept the Shaw mind open until Stan Janowski proved his worth as a farmer. In spite of Jen's impregnable excellence Authoress Carroll makes her such an attractive character that finally even skeptical readers will agree with the Yankee Shaw family that if Jen wants to marry a Pole, that will be all right with them...
...Princeton athletes who knew nothing about field hockey, owned no equipment, had practiced only once, planned to play Vassar. The game was arranged by a Princeton field hockeyist who knows Right-Halfback Alice Morris of the Vassar team. On the Princeton team, which calls itself the "Bengals." are : Stan Purnell, baseball captain and football right-halfback; Arch Brooks, lacrosse captain; John Rutherford, boxer; Hugh Boice, ice hockey captain...
...potency of the Watch and Ward Society of New England need be no cause for alarm. Chaste virtue will still be the essential characteristic of service of the Muses along the banks of the Charles so long as Boston's morals are in the hands of those guardian cherubim, Stan White and Mike Crowley. --New York Herald-Tribune...
...Their misadventures in training camp are only intensified when they arrive in France, until they succeed in capturing a sizable part of the German army with a single tank. The rest of the picture deals with their attempts, back in America, to locate a man known only as Smith. Stan Laurel tries to identify the unknown with the cough drop brothers, and with "Al," unsuccessfully. In the end that old devil coincidence does the trick...