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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moslem-Hindu religious and social differences top the list of hindrances to Indian independence from British rule. Probably the most frequent and most telling answer Great Britain gives to demands for immediate dominion status is: "Once freed, India would destroy itself in civil war." The rift divides India as permanently as the Mississippi divides...
High-grade backfield men were numerous all over the circuit, but this year top mention belongs to Cornell's superb blocking quarterback, pathfinder Walt Matuszezak. He was the heart of Coach Snavely's attack, the answer to any coach's prayer. There were brilliant running backs to run through the gaping holes he manufactured in enemy lines, and chief among them was Whit Baker...
...fathead). Composer-Critic Deems Taylor remembered what musical composition a baby's cry reminded him of (Richard Strauss's Domestic Symphony). Catcher Moe Berg identified Garibaldi's Carbonari. Russel Grouse still thought the football team best suggested by an ocean was C. C. N. Y. (book answer: Tulane's Green Wave). Lillian Gish remembered her Browning better. The board recalled three of Peggy Joyce's four husbands...
...great tester of theologies. To consider and try to answer the hard questions Christians ask themselves in war, some Britons lately began The Christian News-Letter. Among them were the Archbishop of York, Lord David Cecil, Catholic Christopher Dawson, Anglo-Catholics T. S. Eliot and J. Middleton Murry, Detectifictioneer Dorothy Sayers, Theologians Nathaniel Micklem and Reinhold Niebuhr. Editor is Joseph Houldsworth Oldham, Presbyterian-turned-Anglican, leader in the slow-forming World Council of Churches...
...glass of beer at the New York World's Fair last summer pretty Florence Mistele, 18, design student, and handsome Richard Graham, 20, actor, hatched a solution to the age-old problem of what to do with one glove after the other is lost. This week their patented answer went on sale at Manhattan's swank Mark Cross Co. (leather goods). It was a glove which looked like a hand's pattern jig-sawed out of a board. It is made by sewing an identical back and palm to a leather ribbon edge. Loose and easy...