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...their aggressive Captain William Nash, the powerful Columbia outfit will be out to tighten their grip on the Intercollegiate League lead by capturing a fifth consecutive victory. Nash and his teammate, Clifford Wolff, accounted for 31 points in the New York game last Wednesday, and are expected to give the Feslermen plenty of trouble tomorrow night...
...public demonstrations Whistler Garth trains rigorously. He drinks only lukewarm water because anything colder will tighten the membranes of his mouth. He avoids drafts as scrupulously as if he were a sensitive high-priced singer, never brushes his teeth before whistling because, as he explains, the natural film-coating provides a necessary lubricant. A dentist tends his teeth each month or so, however, because "I couldn't whistle with false teeth, at least not a solo." Says he: "I never have known what to style myself. Perhaps I am a whistlist...
...early age. At 14 he was sent to school in Paris, tried to learn painting after hours. Deciding that there were enough painters, and that a writer's tools were less expensive, he took to wandering around the Mediterranean countries, "learning to drink wine and to tighten my belt from time to time." Other places seen: the Austro-Italian front (as a war-artist), South America (where he was lost in the Gran Chaco). At 36 he is married, settled at The Hague. One other novel of Fabricius', Lions Starve in Naples, has been published...
...should like to see more English plays here, more American plays in London... There will be disappointments, of course... The average New Yorker does not go to the theatre in exactly the same state of mind as the average London citizen. The former has a weakness for plays that tighten and then jangle his nerves. Our London audiences like to be gently moved, to melt into the rose-tinted twilight of the Haymarket or Wyndham's, because of some fairy-tale nonsense." Thus putting his finger on the reason many an English play fails in New York, British Playwright Priestley...
Three days later in Baton Rouge something very serious happened to Huey Long. The seventh special session of Louisiana's Legislature was just getting down to the business of rubberstamping 39 bills devised by the Senator to tighten his one-man dictatorship over the State. On the floor there had been the customary brawling and cursing as the "Kingfish" strutted up & down the aisle giving orders to his henchmen. As the Legislature adjourned for the night, Senator Long marched out of the chamber and started down the corridor to Governor Allen's office, flanked, as always...