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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both in content and make-up the 1947-48 catalogue of courses improves markedly upon its immediate predecessor. So far as the fall and spring terms go, the catalogue has grown in thickness and quality back to 1940 dimensions. Furthermore, it celebrates the return to business as usual by reviving the prewar practise of bracketing courses omitted for one year, but to be resumed the following year. Only the summer term remains as a blight upon an otherwise noteworthy issue of the Official Register of Harvard University...
Hope finds himself cavorting in another stock role, that of a baby-photographer playing at private detective, and he soon is immersed in the usual welter of ominous looking crooks, one of whom inevitably turns out to be Peter Lorre. Tossing gags to the winds, Hope spends the greater part of the picture chasing Dorothy Lamour, who plays a foreign baroness of some kind, though she seems to lose her accent after the first reel. Action, consisting mainly of knife-throwings and wisecracks, moves from California mansion to insane asylum to Washington hotel to San Quentin Prison...
...room of her dingy first-floor flat, waiting for Robert. He had been released from a training school three weeks before. About 9 o'clock he came in. His trousers were muddy and covered with wet cinders. He explained that he had been splashed by a car. As usual, he refused to say where he had been...
White-maned Frank Lloyd Wright, as usual, went further: he urged that all colleges should shut down for ten years (they were too departmentalized). Also, the U.S. Presidency and State Department should be abolished, and the capital moved closer to the heart of the country. Wright thought cities should be abandoned. "The city," Wright averred, "is a stimulus similar to alcohol, ending in similar degeneracy or impotence-for no city can maintain itself by way of its own birth rate, and a glance at history shows us that all civilizations have died of their cities...
...during chiropractic treatment -one for headaches, the other for hay fever. They were taken, unconscious, to the hospital at the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, died there a few hours later. The hospital doctors were puzzled: there were no signs of injury to the spine (the usual target of a chiropractor's manipulations), no clues to the cause of death. Autopsies on the patients' brains showed that the cerebellums were badly bruised and full of blood clots...