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...whom Captain Hamer was looking-Clyde Barrow. Clyde Barrow's youth in Dallas was devoted to stealing automobiles. In 1930 he was sent to prison, paroled in February 1932. Thereafter he still stuck to petty thievery, never got more than $3,500 at one haul, but he did begin to find sport in shooting down, without provocation, people who got in his way-filling station men, constables, plain citizens. In two years he, Bonnie Parker & gang were credited with twelve murders, including one when he staged a prison farm delivery near Crockett, Tex. (TIME, Jan. 29). An awe-struck...
Speaker Santiago Alba entered the semicircular hall of the Cortes in Madrid one afternoon last week. It was time for the session to begin. The Government was proposing to extend Spain's handy "state of alarm" another month to scare off a general farm-labor strike. A trade treaty with the U. S. was in the making. But as Speaker Santiago Alba's eye swept the benches, he goggled. The benches were nearly deserted, Government and Opposition. "Where are they all?'' he asked. A page boy told him they had all gone to a bull fight...
...Crimson assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of the schedule, which is posted in University Hall, and in the Houses. All examinations begin at 9.15 o'clock, unless otherwise specified, and will last for three hours...
Sometime this spring, or perhaps not until next year, when the students' begin to tire of the ordinary run of existence and gather in crowds on the streets, there will come marching down the avenue a parade that would do any righteous man's heart good. For there, mounted on the sleekest of bays, all ready for a fight, will be a squadron of Cambridge's finest...
Despite what young Dr. Hutchins may say about the failure of eastern educational leadership, the leading universities of this section continue to forge ahead, each toward the attainment of its own particular educational ideal. Princeton will begin next year the "No-Course Plan" for Seniors of high standing; Harvard announces the commencement of President Conant's program for the consolidation and creation of highly remunerative scholarships and followships, to bring to Harvard a community of the most brilliant students from all sections of the country. And now, according to the "Yale News", the Elis are about to have a four...