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...business all through him. He then gets to know the vases and how to make up his piece so that it fits. . . . Be sure to choose a florist who has fresh, first class merchandise. 'Seconds' are noticeably inferior when placed on the altar, and they wilt rapidly...
Other members of the committee are: Charles Francis Adams '88, Dr. Fred B. Lund '88, Patrick T. Campbell '93, Abram D. Wilt, Jr. '03, Perry D. Smith '11, Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshmen; Thomas H. Bilodeau, Jr. '87, and Herbert M. Irwin...
...couple of female bluebloods from Long Island on a boat. There is also the affair of a smuggled ring and a liaison between the girls' father and a theatrical baggage. Jack McGowan, master of the "situation gag" rather than the outright nifty, has written a book whose wheezes wilt on paper...
...VOYAGE-Heinrich Herm-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). A luxury liner strikes a floating derelict and the characters wilt like dress shirts. Good second-rate thriller made slightly indigestible by Teutonic philosophizing...
...crooks, industrialists might be common gamblers and gangsters might rule politics but nothing could rob commercial aviation of its honest achievements. In that decade the country learned to fly. Laid were the foundations of an air transport system that became the envy of every foreigner. Even Depression could not wilt this fine new flower of U. S. ingenuity and enterprise...