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With the signing of this deal, Connie Hilton wound up a year-end whirl which had added Nos. 13, 14 and 15 to his $80,000,000 chain...
...have hailed Richards' work on human grounds alone. But any suspicion of his activities as fuzzy intellectualism was banished during the war when jutting-jawed, pragmatic military men beat a path to his Peabody House office, asking for aid. In one ease Richards and a small staff, in a whirl of activity, taught 1000 Chinese naval officers enough Basic English to operate a ship-in six weeks. Here he also made films with Disney for use in Armed Forces classes for illiterates...
...picked up what jobs she could, such as designing leatherwork and making artificial flowers in a sweatshop. In October 1874, she read a newspaper account of séances held by the Eddy brothers in Vermont. Spiritualist Blavatsky promptly descended on the Eddys in a scarlet shirt and a whirl of exotic spirit controls...
Allowing for a changed viewpoint since her pre-war days in Cambridge, Cynthia Brott observed that really, the Radcliffe girl hasn't changed very much. "Still the same interest in men--sparked considerably by the 'joint instruction' programme--the same indulgence in the social whirl, and the same maturing process as the old days." With Cambridge looking "worse than basic training with the millions of men," the Radcliffe interest in the opposite sex and consequent social whirl is understandable. The "maturing process," however, is a singular something Miss Brott, a biochemistry major, didn't work up in the laboratory...
...Gags. Phase 1 was a six-month whirl through the circulation and advertising departments of his father's Sun. Husky, willing Field IV started on a delivery truck, learned about street sales, home sales, customer complaints against carrier boys, sat around drinking with the drivers after work. Using another name (in Chicago, salesmen are not named Marshall Field except as a gag), he sold classified ads over the telephone. Then he took a fast fling at promotion copy and a quick look at the local, national and amusement advertising departments...