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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico's three current international conferences-on high-frequency radio and plastic surgery1-also watched the comet calmly. But not the third. Declared Wing Chao, president of the International Brotherhood of Magicians: "I graduated as an astrologer in China, and I speak with authority: the most tragic things will happen in Asia and in Europe." Nodded his colleague, Lee Fu: "Things are so bad I dare not speak of them...
Thanks to parents and Sunday-school teachers, children generally get a distorted, sissified impression of Christ. So says Author Alan Devoe in the current issue of the American Mercury. "When I was a schoolboy," writes Devoe, "I was told that once upon a time there had been a fine and honorable man named Abraham Lincoln ... a good and grave and great man . . . When I saw a picture of Abraham Lincoln I could immediately believe...
Tallulah * is not the first lady of the theater. She is the theater's first personality. The theater's current first lady is a kind of composite of Helen Hayes, Katharine Cornell, Judith Anderson, Lynn Fontanne-and Tallulah. But Tallulah does not fit neatly into a category, and other ladies of the stage, whatever their virtues as actresses, pale beside her as stars pale when a bonfire is lighted...
...also mused of college lectures by famous people, "with individual lectures being given in each college." Student participation in such educational endeavors would be assured by a weekly intercollege forum "in which a panel of exports selected one from each college participate in discussions of current events...
Many students polled favored a continuation of discussions on current college issues, such as the broadcast last Monday, in which Dean Kerby-Miller and Joan Braverman '50 went over the problem of joint exams...