Word: various
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This morning, class members will take time out from their merrymaking long enough to listen to various lecture symposium speakers discuss subjects ranging from "the Theatre in Paris" to "The Place of Navi Aircraft in National Defense." Following the ball game, Class members will gather at the Harvard Club of Boston at 6:30 o'clock for the Men's Class Dinner. Wives and offspring will have supper at the Hotel Somerset, where they will be joined by their husbands at 10 o'clock for an evening of dancing...
...recently isolated a new hormonelike substance, called "Compound 18," that appears in the urine of almost all cancer patients, and almost never in normal urine. "18" may some day prove helpful in the detection of hidden internal cancer. One trouble is that 18 sometimes turns up in connection with various noncancerous conditions, such as high blood pressure. But Dobriner & Rhoads found that in at least one case, 18 appeared some months before cancer developed. This suggested that the strange endocrine substance might have something to do with the very root of the mystery: cancer's cause...
...vapor-bath system which sprays the bather with various chemicals. Price: $2,200. It was represented as effective for diabetes, abscess of the lung, decay of the jawbones, blood poisoning, a long list of other ailments...
Last week, the artists decided that it was not worthwhile to turn themselves into businessmen. They gladly made a deal with Paramount Pictures to sell it Liberty Films, including It's a Wonderful Life and various other scripts for a rumored $4,000,000 in Paramount stock. All agreed also to go to work for Paramount. To Hollywood's independent companies, it was a shock to hear that one of the best had given up. The signatures with which the deal was settled seemed like the handwriting on the wall to the war-born independents...
...nicely timed plotting and mock style of its many predecessors; its world, as usual, is a world all its own. Blandings Castle is the scene; present are Lord Emsworth, who resembles a heap of old clothes in the moonlight, his prize pig, his battle-ax of a sister and various featherbrained members of a younger generation intent on strategies of love. Full Moon lacks the fresh epithets and fruity exuberance of Wodehouse's most inventive stories, but its nitwitticisms will satisfy the addicted...