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Father Laberge found an intellectual challenge in Russia's godless masses. In the contour of the city itself he saw an exotic, refreshing beauty. Last week with the qualification that his views were personal and unofficial, he told Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times: "The buildings have real style. I never saw a place like this before. The view of the Kremlin from the river is extremely beautiful. Most people only think of the Kremlin in austere terms...
...Allahabad Agricultural Institute to teach the secret of his miracles. He made princes shed their robes, put on working clothes, and go into the fields to get dirt under their nails just like the Untouchables. Soon, to their native states the student potentates took back a firsthand knowledge of contour farming, water conservation, crop rotation. Today the Allahabad Institute is a 600-acre demonstration farm with a student body...
...duds on the Ford and headed out for Californy. Reard there'd be work out there for us Picked oranges for a livin' 'n me a Harvard Man. Yep majored in Fine Arts, Bout a couple o' weeks ago. Government man came 'round, told us about rescedin' 'n contour plowin'. We, me 'n the missus, decided we might as well go on back to our own land, and try to make a go of it again Well, so long, mister sorry, didn't got the name? Well, so long, Mr. Steinbeck...
...thing that city fellers like Steinbeck and McWilliams would naturally fall for. But, they insist, to stay on the land and make a living from it, the small farmer must be come a highly proficient scientist as well as something of an artist. He must master the tricks of contour plowing and strip cropping. He must eschew the temptation to bet everything on a single cash crop, for that way, in years of overproduction, lies bankruptcy...
Naval Lieut. (j.g.) Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt is going to marry her, said Hollywood's contour de force K. T. Stevens. The millionaire peacetime sportsman, divorced last year by Manuela Hudson, is now PT Boating in the South Pacific.* "It isn't official, exactly," said K.T., "but we're mutually agreed. . .. We hope-I mean, I hope-we can be married when he gets his next leave...