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...them sit as pupils in his own classes. Trained at the University of Chicago, he is now a Professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma. For 25 years he has made a thorough study of the Negro problem. No "nigger-lover," no "nigger-hater," Professor Dowd understands darkest America...
...Cortot. All praise went to two Debussy Nocturnes that came after intermission: Clouds moving slowly, solemnly, now white, now grey, now reflecting the pale splendor of a dying sun; Festivals with its wise laughter, frail and unearthly-and to the Meistersinger Overture that blew its virtues boldly into the darkest crannies of the hall and drew forth an ovation for the orchestra and its leader...
...went to Coach Horween the other day, and I said, "Arnie," and that's the way I am, calling him Arnie the first thing just to make him feel at home. The Forecasts have always been like that. Way back in the darkest hours of the Civil War when General Grant came out of the West to take command of the Union army, who was the one man, the only man in that vast throng of blue-coated soldiery to greet the lonely general with a friendly, "Hello, Ulysses old horse! Good luck!" Who was it, I repeat...
Smithsonian-Chrysler. Dr. William M. Mann, bearded chieftain of the expedition to collect live animals for the National Zoo (Washington, D.C.) at the expense of Manufacturer Walter P. Chrysler, of Detroit, has kept faithfully in touch with the press from Darkest Africa. After many successful game drives, no small part of his labors have been providing cages and food for antelopes, birds, pythons, mongooses, monkeys, anteaters, hedgehogs, turtles, baboons. Lassoing gnus; dodging buffalos and night-prowling rhinos; cornering giraffes; distinguishing between hyenas and leopards in the dark, were occupations,, routine. "As I write," wrote Dr. Mann from Lake Manyara, "there...
...darkest spot in our knowledge of the history of the Mexican natives is our ignorance of the beginnings of the Maya peoples. It is certain that those responsible for this civilization were American natives and that their development is not due to any influence outside the new world...