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...rich can play polo and all can play golf on four 18-hole courses for $1 and $2 greens fees); seven other public golf courses; 161 City tennis courts; 250 City playgrounds; 233 miles of motor parkways. Due to his efforts, Greater New York, long backward, has probably the biggest, most elaborate recreation facilities of any U. S. city, and many of them are self-supported by moderate fees for bathing, parking, charcoal at the fireplaces provided for picnickers.* Mr. Moses has long had in mind making a public promised land of Long Island's whole south shore. Owners...
...Joseph Stalin's most dramatic move since the last Moscow "purge trial," the biggest gun of the Soviet press this week opened up against Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...annual statistics of U. S. church membership, compiled by Dr. Herman Carl Weber, expert religious statistician. Total 1937-38 membership was 63,848,094, an increase of 754,138 adults. Of the total U. S. population, 49.9% were affiliated with a church, as compared to 19.9% in 1880. Biggest U. S. denomination: the Roman Catholic, with 21,322,688 members (15,492,016 over 13 years of age). Biggest Protestant groups: Baptists of all kinds (10,322,005); Methodists (9,109,359). Statistician Weber estimated that 20,000,000 people attend church on the Sabbath. Of his figures he said...
When a cow produces 1,000 lbs. of butterfat in a year, that is good news for her owner, big news for dairymen. Last week the American Jersey Cattle Club was celebrating the biggest news yet: a new world's butterfat champion. Six-year-old, 1,000-lb. Sybil Tessie Lorna 996685, a Jersey owned by L. A. Hulbert of Independence, Ore., had produced 17,121 lbs. of milk in the official 305-day test period, enough butterfat to outweigh herself by 20 lbs. Previous holder of the all-breed record was Aaltje Salo Hengerveld Segis 823991, a Vermont...
...study* was completed by Stanford University's famed Psychologist Lewis Madison Terman (intelligence tests). Professor Terman and his staff examined 792 middle-class couples (average income: $2,450) in California. He asked them hundreds of questions, took elaborate precautions to preserve their anonymity so they would answer truthfully. Biggest news in his report is a finding that satisfactory sexual mating is not the prime requirement for marital happiness. Highlights...