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...ponderous slopes have been visited by no picnic-parties; the journey is too far afield for weekday trippers; but some few fellow-writers have ventured into her shade and have returned with enthusiastic and grateful tales. Ernest Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Carl Van Vechten, supposedly sensible and certainly popular authors, have sat admiringly at her feet. When Hemingway was 23, just married, and learning to write in Paris, he went to Gertrude Stein with a letter of introduction from Sherwood Anderson. He sat, listened, looked at her "with passionately interested" eyes, returned again & again. She read and criticized...
Still a perfectionist but not so optimistic as he has been, Author Wells says things will get worse before they get better. In 1935 and 1937 will come world-wide influenza epidemics. By 1942. gas masks, metal hats and epaulets will be weekday wear for civilians. By 1940 kidnapping will be so prevalent that no important person will be without a bodyguard. In 1938-39, the Japanese, having set up another puppet state in China, will be driven out of the interior; the brief Eastern War will ensue, from which both Japan and the U. S. will emerge national wrecks...
...week's end, no one had yet put pants on the Century of Progress' drunken, naked midnight fun. The showmen even audaciously invited Fair officials to call in the police, if they were willing to risk law suits. Fair officials finally saved their faces by moving the weekday closing hour up to 2 a. m. On Saturdays, they agreed, visitors may raise Ned all night...
...will be open for boating and bathing from 10 to 6.30 o'clock daily, and from 1.30 to 5.30 o'clock on Sundays. A fee of $5. is charged for this privilege from July 3 to September 9. Students using the Boat House must pass a swimming test. Every weekday 24 students may play golf at the Belmont Springs Country Club and on Saturdays and Sundays eight may use the course. The fee is $1.50 per person. Arrangements for all athletics should be made at the H. A. A., 6 Quincy Street, in the basement of the Union...
Four months ago Columbia Broadcasting Co. tucked another contract away in the safe, announced that a new man named Little Jack Little would be in to broadcast on weekday mornings from 9 to 9:15. Early morning broadcasts are beneath the notice of radio's star entertainers. The day Little Jack Little started on his new job Guy Lombardo, the orchestra leader, sent a telegram asking him why he did not double his income by taking on a milk route...