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...flown less than 24 hr. in the last 18 months, was ramming a planeload of mail from, Newark, N. J. through a snowstorm, toward Cleveland. About 20 mi. short of his goal, he groped for a landing. His plane crashed on John Hess's farm near Burton, Ohio. Farmer Hess ran to the wreck, shook the pilot's shoulder. Lieut. Wienecke did not budge. His neck was broken...
...held Friday evening, March 9, has been announced by Elwood K. Salls '34, chairman of the dance committee. The men selected for the position are Richard S. Baxter '34, Alfred H. Beck '35, George C.S. Benson, Head Tutor, Frederick J. Bertolet 2L, George Birkhoff, Jr., Wilton S. Burton '36, Richard N. Clattenburg '35, John P. Coolidge '36, George H. Damon '34, Andrew J. Day '34, Howard M. Graff 4ES, Charles S. Houston '35, John D. Kernan '34, Edward B. Lee '34, George B. Lauriat '36, Robert W. Skinner '34, Soloman W. Stern '35, Arthur W. Todd '35, James W. Tower...
...Evanston, Ill. met 250 C. & C. secretaries, State superintendents, mission board members, committee men and women. Dr. Charles Emerson Burton, general secretary, told them how income had gone down, how all the churches seemed prostrate with a "spirit of defeatism." The delegates voted to start a coin-box campaign for "a penny-a-meal-for-missions." But raising money, no matter how much needed, by helping businessmen sell their products, they could not go. The C. & C. church club women voted their protest against "exploitation of the women of the churches" by the Goodwin Plan or any other...
PROMETHEANS-Burton Rascoe-Putnam ($2.75). Burton Rascoe is a journalist in search of literature. An epitome of restless 20th Century curiosity and enthusiasm, he has been a familiar U. S. literary figure for over ten years, has written masses of literary chatter but only three books. Prometheans is his fourth. Ever since he left Chicago (in 1920) he has been tinkering away at a novel which Author Branch Cabell calls "the most famous American novel never yet published." But Rascoe has been too busy nosing around among other people's works to finish his own. Prometheans, like his Titans...
...other two prizes are presented by the Harvard Clubs of Chicago, and of Buffalo. The Chicago award is an additional scholarship to Robert D. Woolsey 1M, of Maquon, Illinois. Burton L. Olmsted '37, of Buffalo, is the recipient of the Buffalo Scholarship...