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...strapping young Chicago reporter stepped into a cinema theatre. It was perhaps the third time in his life he had "gone to the movies." What he saw-D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation-made his eyes pop, his heart thump. An industry doing things like that, he decided, was the place for him. So Reporter Martin Quigley quit his job with the Chicago evening Post and two months later began publishing the Exhibitors Herald. After absorbing two competitors, Motography, Motion Picture World, the magazine became the potent Exhibitors Herald-World and Publisher Quigley was a millionaire...
Back to Rio from Paris last week hurried Ambassador Morgan. Two days after his arrival, less than 48 hours after the Washington embargo, the Washington Luis government fell with a resounding thump which jarred official nerves in Washington (see p. 24). But it was not too late for Ambassador Morgan to salvage some U. S. goodwill (U. S. trade with Brazil: $316,000,000 per year). He cabled Statesman Stimson...
...Howard Dietz, who were responsible for many of the tunes in last year's production, have produced three memorable numbers: "Foolish Face," "Sing Something Simple," "Lucky Seven." Perhaps even more tintinnabulating are the melodies of Messrs. William M. Lewis Jr. and Ted Fetter: "My Heart Begins to Thump! Thump!" and "What A Case...
...Thump, thump, thump, thump?at 3:30 p. m. the sound of the crippled Chancellor's rubber tipped canes was heard, and at 3:46 the great budget speech...
Colloredo's premature entree into upperclass rowing circles took place last year when the University crew was swinging along the upper stretches of the Charles one afternoon. A bad feather, a crab, a jarring thump, and a splash as one oarsman flashed overboard into the none too clean water just about tells the story. Another bump as the nautical sweepswinger's head broke through the surface of the ripples and landed against a rigger, almost added another chapter to the story but the crew held hard, the shocked oarsman bobbed up astern, and all was well except for a rather...