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...those who think a Harvard biddie is a meek, Maude Adams wisp of a woman who glides unseen and unheard through the monastic suites with pail and dustup, the life of one Crimson editor will seem a complete enigma. Mrs G. . . . to whom he wistfully refers as "the woman who allegedly cleans my room," is a German fran of no mean tonnage and poundage, who keeps both him and his roommate completely under her thumb. Unfortunately for his relations with his redoubtable keeper the editor is far from the paragon of neatness, and at any given time his bedroom looks...
Pretty & popular young sopranos are rare enough, but pretty & popular young contraltos almost unheard of. Industrious Gladys Swarthout worked hard, made her name familiar to radio listeners in broadcasts for General Electric, General Motors, Atwater Kent, Palmolive Soap, Firestone Tires, Fleischmann's Yeast...
Bullets for Speed. Commissar Ordzhonikidze saw to it that Comrade Stakhanov received a motor car and other luxuries unheard of for a Russian miner. After diligent search in other Soviet mines and factories, fresh Heroes of Labor were produced whose feats of "Stakhanovism" as played up by the Soviet Press became more & more stupendous...
...This new German war machine, rapidly assembling last week, consists of some 170,000 professional soldiers and more than 200,000 conscripts who will soon swell to 500,000. Adolf Hitler, "Apotheosis of the Little Man," never rose above corporal's rank during the War and today lavishes unheard-of comforts on happy German soldiers. Crews of carpenters were busy last week replacing great, grim Prussian barrack rooms with small, snug squad rooms equipped with easy chairs, tables, cheerful curtains, hardwood floors and such lavish tiled lavatories as no other European army can boast...
While this analytical editorial is profuse in its approval of the general plans for the library, it is noticeable that the News has made some very unusual and hitherto unheard declarations. Few Princetonians know that their Alma Mater has long been hailed as the home of "professional football;" in fact the News doubtless occupies a position well in the forefront in bringing this fact to light. Princeton were further doubtless ignorant that the long-planned library was in danger of oblivion because of a co-existent desire for a new gymnasium in which to house its "big-time" athletes...