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...late brother contains a brief (104-page), eminently unsatisfactory biographical note, whose tantalizing omissions are half discretion, half plain lack of knowledge; a few unpublished letters; 31 poems, their general level far inferior to Housman's sensibly strict standard; and the best Housman parody (by Hugh Kingsmill) extant...
...Catholic. Sympathetic accounts of the Group's work have appeared in the Catholic Times in England, the Catholic World in the U. S. L'Osser- vatore Romano, semi-official newsorgan of the Holy See, once ran a letter guardedly praising Buchmanite aims. One of the prettiest Buchmanites extant, Baroness Connie de Hahn of Budapest, used to say at European meetings: "I was brought up a Roman Catholic, and being changed has made me a much better Roman Catholic." Last week, however, a potent Catholic prelate, Arthur Cardinal Kinsley, Primate of the Roman Catholic Church in England, wrote...
...nationwide vote were taken to discover the most despised politico-social organization currently extant, the Amerikadeutscher Volksbund would stand at least a fair chance of winning. A group of some 125,000 U. S. citizens of German blood and clubby tendencies, it is hated in the U. S. as an offspring of Naziism. In Germany it is apparently equally scorned by the Hitler Government: 1) as a feeble, provincial imitation, and 2) as a source of damaging publicity...
...ones. When torpedo boats were invented and again with the development of undersea and aerial weapons, the President said, amateur strategists had declared that battleships were done for. As a professional ex-Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he was still convinced that they were the most effective seagoing armament extant...
...Yale University Library a student handed in a call slip for Yale's Gutenberg Bible, worth $120,000, one of seven of its kind extant in the world. The request was refused...