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...strained atmosphere has lightened considerably now, and the question of Faculty-student relations seems to be easing its way to settlement--not soon enough for the end of March perhaps, but soon enough to remind one of the Almanack's proviso. The Council has just heard a report, based on interviews with various Faculty members, which indicates that the Council would be welcome at meetings of Faculty committees...
...names of the damaged towns sounded like an Almanack de Gotha of winter sports. Zermatt, Arosa and St. Moritz were cut off. Houses were buried on the outskirts of Andermatt. Some 500 British and 70 American tourists suffered a sybaritic exile, stranded in the luxury hotels of Davos. In central Switzerland the 4,100-ft. high village of Vals was crushed by a torrent of snow, rock and snapped timber. A small hotel at Oberalpsee was completely buried...
...exclusive story of its own under a Page One banner: "PRINCE" MATE OF N.O. GIRL CALLED FAKE. A long-distance call to a bona fide Hohenzollern in Texas, reported the States triumphantly, had established that "there is no Prince Otto Wilhelm Hohenzollern." So had a search of the Almanack de Gotha and inquiries at the U.S. State Department. For good measure, the States also put in a transatlantic call to Hechingen, Germany, where Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm himself denounced "Otto Wilhelm" as an impostor...
Inside, a British officer was throwing a party for some of his German friends; he called them "the cream of what is left of German society." The men in black & white, the bejewelled women in long backless gowns were busy dazzling each other and particularly their British host, with Almanack de Gotha chatter about Prince this, Duke that and their big estates...
...present Freedom & Union will not go on newsstands, will sell only to subscribers (at $4 a year). To season its heavy fare of discussions, digests and editorials, there will be dashes of humor and satire, columns with titles like The Little Dog Laughed and Poor Adam's Almanack. "In short," says Clarence Streit, "Freedom & Union will be neither a timid, pallid neutral nor a narrow, humorless zealot." But it will try to count for something among "influential English-reading people" the world over...