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Printed on the program at all such revues as this is a statement that the producer can alter the sequence and quantity of the acts at each performance in his attempt to weed out the least successful and achieve the best balance. Even though this does entail much furious program flurrying the patron curious enough to like his entertainers identified (obviously a hold-over from the days of vaudeville when the names of the various acts were printed on placards at the side of the stage), we have all come to accept it as an inherited civic calamity, like Curley...
...Longuet, her servant girl Helene Demuth and her famed husband Karl Marx. Now & then a Communist or Socialist deputation stops by to pay its respects and leave behind a wreath. Otherwise the grave of the man whom both Communists and Socialists claim as their spiritual father is neglected and weed-grown. Its official custodian, another Marx grandson named Edgar Longuet, lives far away in a Paris suburb...
...United Negro College Fund was on the Combined Charity list last year, and had attracted some student protest because it favored the segregation of Negroes. "It is apparent," said yesterday's YPH statement, "that the Council purposely changed the name of the Jim Crow weed" this year to deceive students...
...Even after the release of the Smyth report, a publicly available how-to-do-it manual on the breeding and use of atomic energy--originally authorized by the Army, military officials in the atomic weapons program wanted the AEC to classify almost all atomic information. They also wanted to weed out all scientists not meeting rigorous security standards. At the same time, some very able men were quitting their jobs under the AEC because they found existing security gags in compatible with their own conceptions of free scientific development...
...stayed out in the Orient for five years, taking in both China and the Philippines. In between tobacco deals, he found the East had developed considerable interest in basketball. Shepard played a little himself to keep his hand in, and in 1926 he took out enough time from weed-peddling to coach the Chinese Olympic basketball squad...