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Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, better known as the brains of wooden Charlie McCarthy, was booked on the college circuit last week. His stint: a two-lecture stand at the University of California at Los Angeles. Purpose: to give hopeful undergraduate script writers a working view of good gags, bad gags, comic ideas-right out of a horsing mouth...
General Wavell's Chief of Staff will be General Sir Henry Royds Pownall, who has just done a one-two-three stint as Commander in Chief of British forces in the Far East. A logical choice, from the looks of things...
Because of his World War I stint, Herrington knew that the tremendous traction of his all-wheel trucks would be useful in anyone's army. So he prepared for the boom; 30 days after the Germans broke into Poland, Herrington broke ground for a fivefold expansion of plant facilities. Then he expanded again & again. His output is now 20-25 times that of August 1939, still going...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the period of study required for an M.A. degree may be reduced by introducing two summer school sessions of six weeks each, instead of the present single six week stint...
Birthday. Tireless Novelist Gertrude Franklin Atherton, 84 (Black Oxen, The Crystal Cup); in San Francisco. "Rejuvenated" by X-ray stimulation of her ovaries in 1922, she spent her birthday pounding out her daily stint of 1,000 words...