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They built three snowhouses. Each was about eight feet high, 10 ft. by 14 ft. in breadth. They used their parachutes for roofs, stripped the ailerons from their plane to hold them up. They used the C-47's plywood ventilator for a center beam (it broke), and the power plant for lighting. Air Force planes dropped them everything they could use-playing cards, whiskey, clothes, magazines, a Christmas dinner of roast turkey and pumpkin pie, a Christmas tree. Some even talked to their families in Greenland by radio...
Died. William H. Lewis, 80, Boston Negro lawyer, onetime star Harvard football center (he captained the team for one. game against Pennsylvania in 1893); in Boston. One of the first Negro members of the American Bar Association, Lewis was appointed an Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. by President Taft...
...becomes secondary to the prime concern-surface appearances. When Author Davenport looks at a medieval painting of the martyrdom of Saint Alban, she merely observes, with an artist's pure detachment, that the saint's collar "shows the new interest ... in the vertical line and in the center-front." In another such painting, Job's boils are ruthlessly ignored in favor of Mrs. Job's hat ("the turban which spread so rapidly from Persia"). The glories of the Medicis and the Italian Popes simply show that "the bodice is gradually taking on importance"; the Renaissance reaches...
Entry blanks may be obtained by writing or wiring Loster Golner, Secretary of the Bromley Ski Club, P.O. Box 226, Manchester Center, Vermont...
...director of the Russian Research Center and in making a study of Japan for the government during the war, Kluckhohn established a widespread reputation as an expert in the application of the principles of Anthropology to current problems...