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Barring a change of bad weather, Jaakko Mikkola's trackmen will break into the Stadium today for the first time this year. Only recently cleaned of its football regalia, the Colosseum has been undergoing a stiff currying in preparation for another spring of Saturday afternoons. Jaakko and his assistant Bill Neufeld some weeks ago gave up the Cage to baseball and spring football. Since being evicted Crimson runners have been following the river to Watertown and back, pacing the crews alongside. Now that the Stadium is ready Jaakko and his charges are prancing for the final pre-season drive...
That night youths of Benito Mussolini's smartly uniformed Fascist Balilla held flaming torches aloft to light the vast, half-ruined Colosseum. In the Arena, where wild beasts once tore Christian martyrs to bits, the 15,000 veterans prayed in unison for a solid hour "for forgetfulness by Mankind of the hatreds of the World War and the re-establishment of Good Will among all peoples...
Fort Worth restaurant keepers near the city's stucco Colosseum, where boxing and wrestling matches are the usual attractions, covered their signs with new ones reading: WELCOME, BAPTISTS, NO BEER and EAT HERE, NO BEER. In session in the Colosseum last week was the 89th annual gathering of the Southern Baptist Convention, a body which, like the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, sprang from schism over slavery (in 1845) with the Northern brethren. Next to Roman Catholicism the largest single U. S. church, the Southern Baptist has 4,173,928 members. In Fort Worth representing its 24,270 churches were...
Died. Otto Kahn, 53. (no kin to U. S. Banker Otto Kahn), Frankfurter Zeitung's Rome correspondent; of injuries received by falling off the top of Rome's Colosseum...
...Babylon and Nineveh and ancient Rome," cried he, "wallowed in the wealth of material prosperity, stood naked and unashamed in their perdition?and suc- cumbed. But the human lamp posts of Xero. the men, women and children thrown to the lions at the Colosseum for a Roman holiday, gave us the artesian springs of Christianity that rule the world, while the splendors of Rome are almost forgotten memories...