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Regrettable is the fact that the Boston Community Fund Committee used the words "Harvard University, students, staff, and employees" in informing local papers the amount of money received from men with Harvard connections. The six thousand dollars donated the drive from here was given entirely unofficially. It is apparent that the Fund Committee attempted to use Harvard's name for an un Harvard purpose. Many Overseers may be Boston business men, but Harvard students come from all over the country, and Harvard itself is in Cambridge...
Detroit suffered a thoroughgoing scare, for closely associated with Helen Abney for three nights were 100 other young & lithe girls who taxi-danced for a living and a thousand men who danced with them. Few of the dancers dared feel safe against smallpox contagion. When schoolchildren, some had evaded the usually compulsory vaccination against this comparatively rare disease.* Practically none of the others knew that vaccination may provide protection for only five years. By means of newspapers and radio Detroit's Health Commissioner Henry F. Vaughan last week explained all this to Detroit's citizens and plenty...
...something conceived on Olympus but is produced by people very much like himself." As an exposition of The World of Tomorrow, Mr. Whalen explained, the Fair would be devoted to functional art, "woven into the very warp and woof" of avenues and buildings. "Instead of a few hundred thousand people seeing the old masters isolated in one building," he proclaimed, "50,000,000 visitors will find art all around them-to the right, to the left and even underfoot...
...Sixty-five thousand people are totally deaf; 75,000 more are deaf & dumb; 200,000 lack a hand, arm, foot or leg; 300,000 have permanent spinal injuries; 500,000 are blind; 1,000,000 more are permanent cripples...
...Macfadden moneymaker. When it learned that Mr. Fawcett had managed a publicity tie-up with Paramount on Carole Lombard's picture True Confession, Mr. Macfadden's True Story looked briskly to its circulation laurels. True Confessions, with $15,000 spent in exploitation, ordered several hundred thousand more February copies than it had been selling, put them on sale December 24, six days early. But by last week Mr. Fawcett and his True Confessions were a pretty disillusioned pair, and did not hesitate to show it in a startling newspaper advertisement run in six cities...