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...response was so immediate in the case of Mrs. Schroeder's contribution or offer to contribute to Noel Burnet's koala farm that it is possible your Letters column might awaken a similar response on behalf of America's greatest and, at one time, most beloved upland game bird. In fact, Rex. king of grouse, truly depicts what would be so lacking in our woodlands, if allowed to go the way of the passenger pigeon and heath...
...many Chinese generals joined. Thus the kidnappee & kidnapper sought to exercise in Chiang's village birthplace a joint moral and political leadership of China, seemingly with the intention that Chinese capitalists in the coastal cities and the more or less bureaucratic statesmen of the Government at Nanking should awaken to the "advantages" of teaming up with the potent Chinese bandit Communist armies for war with Japan...
...deficit had fallen to the lowest in four years. He had tried to build up the orchestra, encouraged the energetic if occasionally ragged American Ballet. The spring season gave hopes of being an excellent proving ground for U. S. talent. Most important was the reanimated public that seemed to awaken once more to opera. A few grumbled that Johnson's first season had been the most conventional in Metropolitan history. No premieres had been produced. Not one opera was put on unless it looked sure-fire from the box-office standpoint. But Johnson, playing safe, called attention...
...According to its constitution, the Mothers Union exists, under the patronage of Queen Mary, "to hold the sanctity of marriage and to awaken in mothers of all classes a sense of their great responsibility in training their boys and girls. To organize in every place a band of mothers who will unite in prayer and seek by their own example to lead their own families in purity and holiness." *Persons who banned the Simpson story and made no bones about so doing last week were King Carol in Rumania, the Yugoslavian Regency, Tsar Boris in Bulgaria and Director Sam Wood...
...Atlanta last week the National Preaching Mission, currently touring the U. S. to awaken dozing Protestantism (TIME, Sept. 28), struck its first snag. The Atlanta Constitution had politely editorialized: "There should be earnest and full co-operation by the Christian people of Atlanta in the constructive and inspirational meetings to be held during the next four days." But the Atlanta ministers in charge of arranging these inspirational meetings did not cotton to the Federal Council of Churches' stipulation that at least one Negro be included among the speakers. Neither the protests of Preaching Missionaries nor remonstrance from the city...