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...standard Hollywood juvenile. A veteran of WPA drama and radio serials, he was ousted in the finals of Producer David Selznick's hunt for a Tom Sawyer. He and Freddie Bartholomew raced to work in their cars every morning until Lydon bowled over an R. K. O. watchman and Producer Towne threatened to put them both off the lot. At 17, Cinemactor Lydon believes that he will be washed up in five years. After that he wants to be a cameraman...
...Nassau Hall is so persistent a custom at Princeton that the university does a profitable business: keeps a barrel of spare clappers in reserve and fines students $30 a steal. One dark night two months ago Freshman John C. Seed, 19, of Oak Park, Ill., eluded the bored watchman, shinnied up a drain pipe. Part way up, he lost his hold, fell 35 feet to the ground. Freshman Seed went to a Chicago hospital, where his father is a physician, with two broken vertebrae...
...onto a chute; the chute carries it to a tray; when the tray has piled sufficiently high with books, a photo-electric beam is intercepted which works an automobile jack, lowering the tray; as soon as the tray is full an alarm clock goes off that wakes the night watchman, who then empties the tray of books...
...prowling Young Communist was apprehended by watchman early yesterday morning while mysteriously slipping pamphlets under the doors of students in Leverett House...
...which he raised among friends and business associates) Gross bought Lockheed, had the grass cut, put the watchman back on pay and went to work. From Stearman he hired brilliant, witty M. I. T.man Hall L. Hibbard to head his engineering department. In charge of sales he put smart Carl B. Squier, who had sold Lockheeds for the old company in every corner of the earth...