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Chungking is a gigantic anthill which sits where the Kialing joins the Yangtze River. Ancient, 100-ft. walls confine the old section of Chungking to five square miles of an eminence 150 ft. above the rivers. Inside walled Chungking the streets, now pitted with holes filled with water for fire prevention, rise steeply, often in steps, between flimsy wooden buildings crammed with refugees and Government offices. Across its congestion Japanese bombers laid parallel lines of destruction, a mile and a half long, 500 yards wide. They dropped more than 100 bombs...
...world there was no happier man last week than Manhattan Banker William Woodward. Sitting in his box at ancient Churchill Downs, the 63-year-old millionaire watched his big bay colt, Johnstown, parade from the paddock with seven other top-notch U. S. three-year-olds-all that were ready to start of the 115 nominated last February-for the 65th running of the Kentucky Derby...
...talk of every small town in the Midwest. Five years later, Cincinnatians decided that their festival needed a permanent home. So at a cost of $310,000 they built themselves what was then the largest and finest concert auditorium in the U. S. Today Cincinnati's enormous, ancient, many-spired Music Hall still stands. The paint on its walls has chipped off and its roof leaks, but it is one of the half-dozen acoustically perfect large auditoriums in the U. S. There, every two years, Cincinnati still gathers its huge Festival Chorus and its Cincinnati Symphony, puts...
Because the event is the forty-fifth in the ancient CRIMSON-Lampoon series, special arrangements have been consummated to allow eager undergraduates to attend the contest. Simply arrive at Soldiers Field at 3:30 o'clock...
...ancient question of the legitimacy of university tutoring has recently been reviewed by the Harvard Crimson and, as the system is conducted there, found to be a definite evil. With a request to other Harvard publications to refuse tutoring school advertisements the Cambridge daily formally declared war on the system in general. . . . Not content with discreet announcements, high pressure advertising is brought into use (but the tutoring schools) inferring that he who studies is a sucker and which includes a cocktail party for freshmen. . . . Having as an example the mild form of the system as it exists here...