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...night last week these same five players stood under a spotlight in the middle of the same rink, while adoring home-towners cheered wildly. It was the Rangers' 400th game. These charter members had stuck together from the start, had helped win the Stanley Cup twice, had put the team into the play-offs every season, and, since last Christmas, had hoisted it from bottom to top of the National Hockey League's American division. At the end of the first period of last week's game, with the score 1-to-1, ceremonies took place. Diamond...
Meanwhile in La Paz something had to be done to take the citizens' mind off the war last week. The Government put on an exciting celebration of the 400th anniversary of the fall of the Inca Empire...
...chapel, was completed in 1709 at a cost of $3,000,000. This, says skeptical Terry's guidebook, "is no doubt a gross exaggeration." By last week, some $800,000 had been spent in alterations, and clerics and pilgrims were ready for the opening ceremonies of the 400th anniversary fiesta: reconsecration of the altars, high mass, a view of the tilma, its holy image and the bejewelled Sacred Golden Crown of the Virgin, quoted...
...anguish or anger. This happened last week. A prominent Roman Catholic flayed President Hoover for his greeting to the Lutherans, which was: Hoover to Lutherans. "I send cordial greetings to the Americans of Lutheran faith who are celebrating on October 31 the anniversary of the Protestant Reformation and the 400th anniversary of the reading of the Augsburg Confession from which date so many of the changes in point of view from older conceptions both of religion and government...
Endurers. At Roosevelt Field, N. Y., Robert Black and Louis Reichers landed in their 13th day of endurance flying, hinted that rivals had tampered with their fuel. At St. Louis, Forest O'Brine and Dale ("Red") Jackson, former record holders, approached their 400th hour in their attempt to beat the Hunter brothers...