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There is a considerable body of young people who are not only unable to go to college but are also jobless. To these went last week an invitation from Commonwealth College (Mena, Ark.), militant labor institution. Chief point: tuition at Commonwealth for nine months costs $120, less per month than the cost of living at home. There are no other expenses. Said Lucien Koch, Commonwealth's director: "Young people to whom the Depression is a reality, who have lost their jobs and are not sure where the next meal is coming from, are the ones most likely to succeed...
...final of the 400-metre run, Olympic equivalent of the quarter-mile, was the third race between Benjamin Bangs Eastman of Stanford, who made world's records for the quarter-mile and half-mile early this spring, and Bill Carr of Pine Bluff, Ark. and Pennsylvania University who had beaten Eastman in the Intercollegiates and again in the Olympic trials. This most intense personal rivalry of the entire Games was settled fairly and beyond doubt. At the staggered starting line, Eastman had No. 2 lane, a better position than Carr in No. 4. For the first time in an important...
...Lonoke, Ark. Wade Holloway, dairy man, missed his purse containing $777, decided one of his 23 cows had eaten it after milking. He called a veterinary, had two cows opened at $10 each, found nothing, gave...
Other provers of the fabulous: Rev Mark L. Voyles of Little Rock, Ark. who can give the chapter and verse number of any scriptural quotation read to him and recite the preceding and succeeding verses; W. W. Pitman of Wharton, Tex. who disarmed a man by shooting a bullet into one of the chambers of his gun; Edward W. Pulick of College Point, N. Y. who was struck by lightning, left uninjured save for singed hair, a burnt straw hat; Robert F. Lancaster of South Whitley, Ind. whose family of 58 has not had a death in 83 years...
...packed her off to Solomon. Unfortunately she sends lovely Zud, her lady-in-waiting, ahead to salute Solomon. He becomes infatuated with Zud, and Balkis has to win her way by wile. It is no peaceful time in Jerusalem. The Ephraimites revolt, the Shebans attempt to steal the holy ark. Zud runs away. Balkis learns a thing or two from Solomon, more elsewhere. Zud takes up with a rural god who, besides his other attributes, owns 500 sheep and a cottage in the hills. In the end Balkis goes home, the continuance of her dynasty assured. Solomon resumes his search...