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Last week, with another spring on the way, anti-foreign mobs burned the British Consulate-General in Canton, rioted in Shanghai's streets.* More perilous to the cause of Nationalist China were the gathering Communist offensives all the way from sub-zero Manchuria down to the fertile "rice bowl" of the south...
Also the recipient of honors was James C. Richards '48, who received the Stanley Bagg Pennock Scholarship for his work in Chemistry. Richards, who now holds a Money scholarship, is a native of Canton, North Carolina and lives with his family in Cambridge...
...Canton, Ohio...
Power by Easter. Meanwhile De Gaulle had reached the climax of a 16-month political campaign. Cried he: "The future belongs to those who want to grasp it... ." At a by-election in the Canton of Isigny. Department of Calvados, the R.P.F. candidate polled 2,438 votes against a combined Socialist-Communist vote of only 909. Cabled TIME Correspondent André Laguerre...
...small town of Cully on Lake Geneva. He lived and wrote in Paris from 1902 to 1914. The eight novels, four books of verse and two collections of short stories he wrote in those years pleased only a small group of admirers. Ramuz returned to his native canton of Vaud. shook off Parisian literary influences and identified himself in his work with peasants, small craftsmen and woodchoppers. As a result, the French critics who had ignored him as a Left-Banker in Paris began to praise him extravagantly, tried without success to get Ramuz admitted to the French Academy...