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Starting Dec. 1, 1931 Soviet weeks will end on the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th and 30th days of each month, which will be holidays. Twelve such 30-day months add up to 360 days. Inserting five special Red holidays between the months pads out the year to 365 days. An extra special holiday will take care of leap year...
Thirsty inhabitants of Greenwich Village were alarmed one day fortnight ago to see a large new padlock on the door of a popular 6th Avenue shop. Gone from the window were the innocent green ginger ale bottles which had identified it as one of Manhattan's legion of "cordial & beverage" shops. On the sidewalk rested several battered milk cans. Pasted on the door was a notice that read: "Closed for violation of the Prohibition Law." But before the day was over Villagers were reassured. The sign had not been up 24 hours before above the padlock notice appeared...
...Lincoln, Neb. last week, the 350 foremost U. S. track and field athletes gathered to compete in the 5 6th annual American Amateur Athletic Union championships, a meet called the "Little Olympics" because the 350 included almost all the runners, jumpers and weight throwers who will foregather again in the final Olympic trials at Los Angeles next year. Among them were: Frank Wykoff, Los Angeles sprinter, who was recovering from a horse-kick during last year's championships, who has unofficially surpassed the world's record for 100 yd. (9.5 sec.), who has not been beaten in four...
...Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Bart., the "Millionaire Socialist" who founded in England fortnight ago "The New Party" (TIME, March 9), promptly caught influenza, lay all last week between sheets while his beauteous wife went out to fight the party's first battles...
...Evelyn Byrd, written by enthusiastic U. S. school children. Though no prize had been offered, the idea, suggested by the N. E. A., inspired some 40.000 youngsters to send in essays, drawings, illuminated scrolls, a model of the Admiral's City of New York carved in laundry soap. A 6th-grader wrote: "I am happy to have the opportunity to write to the man who explored the South Pole. I have seen the pictures of your adventures in the cold blizzards. ... In those pictures of your expeditions, I liked best where you dressed Igloo your dog, in that sweater...