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...players to 5 ft. 8 in., agreed on 6 ft. 3 in., the U. S. won the Olympic title, 19-t08 against Canada. Most conspicuous in the gigantic crowds, mostly composed of provincial Germans, who stared at all these doings, was Realmleader Adolf Hitler. Suddenly become an omnivorous sports enthusiast. Herr Hitler hardly missed a day's attendance. While Hungary was defeating France in the water polo final, a persistent lady admirer from California kissed the Realmleader's cheek...
...translated novelists in literature. In the past seven years 15 of her French novels have been published in the U. S., and at one period in 1931-32 translations of them appeared almost every other month. That the reserve of untranslated Colette novels was rapidly being exhausted, many an enthusiast realized with regret last week when the latest item in this Frenchwoman's list appeared...
...senior Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, to whom the President owed much gratitude for important New Deal service in the chairmanship of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, who got credit for selling the idea at the White House and who became its champion in the Capitol. An inland waterways enthusiast since he went to the Senate in 1909, the 77-year-old son of Captain Thomas Jefferson Fletcher, C.S.A., was gravely dismayed when Michigan's Vandenberg last winter convinced the Senate that his latest & greatest project was not only useless but dangerous, might turn south Florida into a near-desert...
...their comfortable common rooms, the easy-going new grace they bring to undergraduate life, it is Provost Charles Seymour, a highly civilized man who edited Colonel Edward M. House's papers, is the master of swank Berkely and looks like suave Cinemactor Frank Morgan. Even so lively an enthusiast for the College Plan as Provost Seymour admits that so far the changes have been residential rather than tutorial. But President Angell definitely believes that the Yale class of 1936 is four or five years further toward informed maturity than his Michigan class of 1890, though he concedes that...
...issue TIME has gone the way of many flesh in the U. S. by saying "Italy sent a Bugatti racer." As every foreign car enthusiast and owner should know, the Italian-named Bugattis are the product of Ettore Bugatti, Molsheim, France...