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From the silent halls of Stillman Infirmary comes a mysterious and juicy tidbit exposing the bonds of true brotherhood that are sometimes created in Harvard. A student had been confined for several days in the third floor ward devoted to those afflicted with respiratory infections. Rigidly, despite the protestations of convalescents, the staff went through the usual ritual of tucking in the students, opening the windows, turning off the lights, and closing the door...
With Fannie Brice, on the other hand, there is practically never cause for com plaint. Her tidbit in this show is her impersonation of a solemn Jewish dancer interpreting "Rewolt" and "de Messes." Plump, ingratiating Comedian Bob Hope (Roberta) is given an amusing song to sing hopelessly to comely Eve Arden (Parade). Vernon Duke wrote the tune; Ira Gershwin the lyric...
...sophisticates last week clucked over a new tidbit about Alexander Woollcott, roly-poly chatterbox of The New Yorker. According to the New York World-Telegram, Mr. Woollcott was out of The New Yorker, ostensibly because the editors disapproved of ribald anecdotes with which he had lately spiced his "Shouts & Murmurs" page...
...stood Old Tutor Jorga to raise boldly in Rumania's Senate the issue created by His Majesty in continuing to live in open sin with a Jewish wench. To many a U. S. newsreader King Carol's liaison with red-headed Magda Lupescu is only a spicy tidbit cooked up by sexational tabloids, but as a matter of fact in intensely anti-Semitic Rumania their relationship is a real and burning national issue...
...farm" movement. You will be struck immediately by the insight given into the situation. But apparently, Professor Zimmerman, with that load off his chest feels that the work for the year has been done and you will soon realize that you have been treated to the only original tidbit in the course...