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Times change? Things are different to-day...
Appointed "social ambassadress-at-large" for San Francisco's 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition was Manhattan café society's clown, Elsa Maxwell. Irked, the N. Y. Daily News's World's Fair-conscious "Nancy Randolph" (real name: Frances Kilkenny) wrote: ". . . To-day this column intends to whack Grover Whalen hard for letting the rival San Francisco Exposition grab that peerless partygiver and fun-maker, Elsa Maxwell. Of course, Grover Whalen has Mrs. Astor . . . but she doesn't like publicity...
Business is picking up along the Danube--to-day's trip of Foreign Minister Delbos to France's Allies in Central Europe and the projected conference Sunday between Yugoslavia and Italy are signs of new activity in the Market for International Promises and Threats and in the Treaties Trust. The statesmen of every country are trying to freeze the present unstable state of international relations into some sort of solid foundation, after which step they can turn their attention to economic and social problems...
...only unhappy feature of the day from a California standpoint," says the Times, "was Yale's surprising defeat by Harvard. It has been reliably reported before to-day's game that Berkeley authorities intended to send Yale the Rose Bowl bid this evening. But the Harvards spoiled all this...
...industry, the costs of venereal disease are tremendous. It has been estimated that from 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 workers lose 21,000,000 working days each year at an average cost of $4 per day, as a result of infection with these conditions. "Even 50 years ago . . . the diseases were often considered incurable. . . . To-day scientific medicine, combining its efforts with those of public health officials, is beginning an organized, sustained campaign against the venereal diseases, a campaign in which the public is participating on a tremendous scale. Throughout the country, women's clubs, the junior...