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...Hums. The word "solunar" was coined by Knight from the Latin names for sun and moon. Scientists can scoff, but he believes-and several thousand sportsmen who follow his tables will swear-that at certain times of day all nature seems to wake up. Fish bite, ducks and pheasants abound, field dogs are alert and easy to train, and even human beings suddenly feel good for no apparent reason. The solunar tables chart the times of day when everything starts to hum. Says Knight: "We don't know what causes that activity, but it applies to all life...
...Committee established by the Chicago Conference in December. Through five national commissions with a regional and campus hierarchy the NSO intends to integrate itself with every imaginable phase of student life. Commission I (Campus Academic, Social, Cultural, and Physical Conditions) could well step in at once where small colleges abound and initiate cooperative regional planning for lecture and concert attractions which otherwise would never venture into the grass-roots. Commission II (Student Publications and Student Government) will, in a sense, trail-blaze for NSO itself when it seeks to formulate ways for rendering student governments functional rather than merely honorifle...
Actually, squarejawed, mystical President Juan Jose Arevalo is no real socialist, but a warm-hearted man full of the necessity for improving the lot of his countrymen. His books, written while he was a university professor in Argentina, abound with denunciations of Communism as "the lowest form of social organization." He sits up to all hours drawing blueprints for school improvements. He discourses by the hour to such visitors as Cinemactor Tyrone Power on the urgent need for a Central American union (TIME, Sept...
Memories of ballet, burlesque, vaudeville, opera, minstrels, stage and even the circus abound in this collection which is considered the finest in the English speaking entertainment field...
...Only in backward countries such as Paraguay and Bolivia, where illiteracy and disease abound, does one find true dictatorships today," he asserted in contradicting the popular notions prevalent among northern peoples...