Word: various
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, oldtime Actress Edna Wallace Hopper appeared in Federal District Court to prosecute a suit for $230,000 in back salary and damages against various cosmetic manufacturers whose products she has publicized. When Judge Patrick Stone insisted that she give her age, Miss Hopper-looking except at close range not a day over 35-wrote a figure on a piece of paper, handed it to him. The judge's eyebrows shot toward the ceiling. The figure (if it agreed with the date of her birth in Who's Who in the Theater...
...Lines last week had a new project afoot. It was a child's book called Air Babies, mothered by Elvy Kalep, a pretty Estonian aviatrix who once aspired to fly the Atlantic, colorfully. illustrating the adventures of two cheerful little winged sprites, Speedy and his sister Happy-Wings. Various other winged characters teach Speedy and his sister air lore, give them unending confidence in air travel. Its object: to take advantage of the fact that attitudes of mind are quickly and permanently affected by propaganda absorbed in childhood...
...There are 23 different places in the body where various kinds of cancers occur. Examination for cancer should include search of the skin, mouth, throat, lungs, stomach & bowels, rectum, prostate, uterus and breasts...
...conducting the Boston Symphony, evened the score. "If the public in Boston cannot understand my serious music," said irate Composer Prokofieff, "I'm going to give them simple things." One of the simple things was his Peter and the Wolf, a musical fairy tale written to teach the various sounds of the orchestral instruments...
...eight teams in the Law School will be distributed among the Houses as follows: Walter Hastings, two; Winthrop, two; Chancery, two; Wendell, one; Perkins, one. Soft ball teams may also be formed in the various departments within the graduate schools...