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...system) announced the purchase of practically all of Cuba's air transport industry, the 14 airports, eleven planes, 850 miles of route, of Campania Nacional Cubana de Aviation, S. A. Though Compania Nacional will be operated as an independent unit, its personnel kept intact (largely as balm to Cuban national feeling), it will be coordinated with Pan American's three trunk lines. North-bound passengers from Barranquilla and Jamaica can change at Cienfuegos to plane instead of train for Havana...
...masons were laying up the walls of the new chapel, but he soon lost track. At last in desperation he dropped in to a house for lunch. There were three affable young fellows just sitting down and he helped them in the hope that they might provide some balm for the jaded spirit...
...optimistic outlook for journalism which Walter Lippman pictures in the current Yale Review will be balm to those hurt minds which have seen the decline of civilization in the scare head lines, scandal stories, and lurid illustrations of the tabloids. Mr. Lippman fore-tells a general revulsion against the romantic tricks of the yellow press which will lead to a new "objective" journalism. Fresh reporting methods rather than sensational stories will be the means of preventing papers from acquiring the soporific faculty of government reports...
...varsity squash team was the only one to go through the season undefeated, but there are a few other incidents which provide a little balm for the wound inflicted by Yale. Harvard's hockey team was probably one of the strongest in the last decade and went through a stiff season with only one defeat until it met and was conquered by Yale. The Freshman wrestling team had not lost a meet until the final one of the season with the Blue. The varsity squash "B" and "C" teams also were defeated only once. The second hockey team suffered only...
...dallied with the thought, tossing it around the corners of his room. And then, pinned up on his daily calendar, he espied a way out of it all. He had found balm for his fevered brain. And he breathed a prayer of fervent thanks to Professor Greenough. For today at 2 o'clock in Sever 11, the Professor would have the answer to his problems. How to be a gentleman, what were the spooks in the Vagabond's garret, and what was this life beyond the grave. Chesterfield, Horace Walpole, and Gray, would be the pinnacles of the hour...