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...veteran rabble-rouser is modest, soft-spoken Leader Lasser. Born in Baltimore, he got into the War when 15 by lying to an Army recruiting officer about his age, was gassed in overseas service. Graduating from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in civil engineering in 1924, he shifted from one technical job to another, was fired by New York Edison Co. in 1929 when he protested a staff cut. For a short period later on he was president of the American Interplanetary Society, which propagandized the cause of sending rockets to the Moon. In 1932 he edited the only two issues...
Newest wrinkle in Soviet travel is the appearance in droves of foreign tourists born in Russia who at last have plucked up enough courage to go and see what their native village is like today. Mostly naturalized in the U. S., they travel 3,500 miles to exclaim "What a dump!" In Soviet hotels guests are offered such strange alternatives as "You can have with your dinner either caviar or a fresh vegetable or ice cream...
...romantic Venice, the year's largest crop of illegitimate Italians is always born in March, thanks to the annual festive "Hymen Harvest" duly celebrated last week. For this occasion Il Duce's ban against kissing in public, which is punished with a fine of 10 lira (80?) was suspended for the night. After filing in a long sacred procession through the Church of Il Redentore, some 10,000 Venetian youths and maidens of the rabble rowed out to the Lido in the year's greatest gondola fleet, slept on the beach under the moon, returned to Venice...
Died. Colonel Willard Young, 84, next to last surviving son of the 56 children born to Mormon Brigham Young and his 19 wives; in Salt Lake City, Utah...
...going to mean when Indians led by Tories burnt their five-acre farm that represented two years of labor, killed the cow that represented all their wealth. Then when the Valley people were cooped up in the stockade at Little Stone Arabia, Lana's first child was born dead. She turned against her husband, lived in dread of the future, while he became embittered, sullen, tried to forget his lost aspirations by exhausting himself hunting in the woods. They rented a one-room shack in German Flats, became the hired hands of a kindly, harsh-voiced old widow, until...