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College schuss-makers will have a chance to hit the long white slopes of Mt. Mansfield, Vermont, over the Washington's Birthday weekend, when an American Youth Hostel sponsored ski party embarks for Stowe and the AYH ski dorm...
Eminent jurists from all over the world have contributed to a book published this month in honor of the 75th birthday of Roscoe Pound, University Professor and former Dean of the Law School. "A man's head swells a little under such circumstances," said Dean Pound yesterday, adding that the book contains the writings of "some of the biggest names in the science of law in the world...
Entitled "Interpretations of Modern Legal Philosophies," the volume was planned for publication at a birthday dinner in October, 1945, but because of the war, its appearance was held up until...
...Communists blew their horns and the notes were echoed from the provinces. The Party had accomplishments to report and it seized an occasion-the 48th birthday of its magnetic leader, Luis Carlos Prestes-to tell the world. Throughout Brazil, at dozens of picnics and other celebrations, the comrades sang such ideological lyrics as "Take off your shirt, Joe, the time of Fascism has passed."* They also saluted the past year's items of progress: 1) emergence as the Hemisphere's largest Communist Party (120,000 militant members); 2) collection of $600,000 for bigger Party newspapers...
Monroe and Isabel Smith, two U.S. schoolteachers shepherding a student tour of Europe, brought the idea home with them in 1933 and a year later opened the first U.S. hostel at Northfield, Mass. By its twelfth birthday last week the A.Y.H. boasted 250 hostels, scattered from New England to California...