Word: berliners
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Lucky winner gets $40,000 from the Nobel Peace Prize. The President of the Conference, Argentine Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas, got his just before the statesmen reached Buenos Aires (TIME, Dec. 7). This week Adolf Hitler held still locked up in a Berlin sanatorium Nobel Peace Prizeman Carl von Ossietzky. Although the Prize Prisoner protested that his health is quite good enough for him to go to Norway and receive the $40,000 which the Nobel Committee wants to give him as a slap at Dictatorship (TIME, Dec. 7), Nazi newsorgans stated firmly that Nazi doctors do not think...
Most outstanding was Dick Degener, graduate of the University of Michigan in 1935, intercollegiate high diving champion for three years, and Olympic springboard diving champion, crowned in Berlin in 1936: He has since turned professional, as have all the others who are appearing with him in the aquatic show at the Arena...
...manifesto which promised that the magazine was to be "a free press for imparting news affecting the industry," and asserted that "proper publicity" would "create a more favorable public opinion of the pawnbrokers' business." Pages of news followed about pawnbrokers' ordinances in various cities, including Berlin, where The Pawnbrokers' Journal correspondent wrote: "Pawn shops, the poor man's banks, are soon to feel the Nazi big stick. . . . Their interest rates, often running as high as 30%, are to be trimmed to a flat 6% annual rate. ..." Better news came from Los Angeles, where a correspondent reported...
John J. Colony, Jr. '37, who is a free-styler, leads the team as captain; but the primary interest will lie in the members of the Junior class, paced by Charlie Hutter, national intercollegiate 100 yard free style champion and a member of Uncle Sam's Olympic team in Berlin last summer. His classmate Graham Cummin is also an intercollegiate champion, having won the backstroke in that meet in record-breaking time. Two other top free-style men from the class of '38 are Donald McCay and Donald Barker...
Hailing from Sydney, Australia, and like Hutter, in Berlin at the Olympics last summer, is William Kendall '40, whose sensational performances are expected to help turn this year's Freshman team into the best Yardling outfit ever to wear the Crimson. Supporting the Australian ace are several other able swimmers like Henry A. Curwen, Frederick W. Griffen, Enno R. Hobbing, Robert Urquhart and Harry Southwick. These men, under the guidance of Lawrence Peterson, new Freshman coach, face their first meet on December 16, with the Lynn Y. M. C. A. as opposition...