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...Ever year," said Getchell, "There are some who'll sell tickets to scalpers for money, running as high as $50 for a pair." And every yea there are from 12 to 25 men apprehended, who stand the chance of being blacklisted...
Everybody has wondered what would happen if people could read each other's minds. In The Thought-Reading Machine amiable, yea-saying André Maurois gives them the power, finds people's secret thoughts are not so bad. Professor Dumoulin was lecturing at a U. S. university when a colleague handed him what looked like a rolled-up copy of FORTUNE, said it was an invention for recording secret thoughts. Dumoulin secretly tried it on his wife, unearthed a startling hodgepodge of sentimental memories of an early lover, resentment against himself. But when he taxed her about...
...CRIMSON baseball club, fresh from its triumphant trample over the prostrate form of the Yale "News," swept through the ranks of its once-greatest rival like the whirlwind. 23 to 2, the traditional CRIMSON margin of victory for yea, these many years, was the counter when erstwhile Catcher Wentworth retired the last newsgetter in the gathering darkness...
Last week a onetime Scripps-Howard writer, Forrest Davis, published a luckily-timed biography of Roy Howard in the Satevepost. Said he: "Scripps serves as king, with final power of yea and veto. Roy Howard is the prime minister, ruling boldly, conspicuously, restlessly, but only with Scripps's consent...
...drawn to distinguish low from high brow, nor a vertical one to set the boundary between Right and Left, listeners at New York's Book Fair could hear New Masses Editor Joseph Freeman as well as Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, profane, pugnacious Novelist James Farrell as well as amiable, yea-saying Dr. William Lyon Phelps. So many had listened to them at the end of the first week, despite repeated demonstrations that many were far better writers than talkers, that Fair officials guessed the attendance would top last year's total of 85,000 paid admissions...