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...start as a mule boy in a coal mine. When Pat Hurley took office in 1929, no finer figure of a man had ever graced a Cabinet meeting. Six feet tall, erect as a wooden Indian, blue-eyed, black-mustached, Secretary Hurley was a sight for sore eyes. From far-off Oklahoma they watched him with love. "Due to Pat," wrote Oklahoma's late Will Rogers, "we're liable to wake up some day with Presidential timber on our hands right down home...
...into the private lives of the cinema colony than had been furnished by any seven days in a twelvemonth. There were one natural, one sudden death, an elopement, a surprise marriage, a bill of divorce, a last testament. In nearly every case the event stirred memories of old, unhappy, far-off things and litigation...
...From far-off Germany the University received its most unique Christmas gift in many years yesterday. The Union for World Veracity in Hamburg sent a picture of the Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler, accompanied by a message of Christmas cheer...
...universe, was the first man to find that stellar galaxies like the Milky Way, each containing billions of stars, were sometimes huddled in groups which he calls "super-galaxies." Last week he reported the discovery, made by astronomers at Harvard's observatory in South Africa, of two new, far-off super-galaxies, each of which is about 1,000,000 light-years in diameter (one light-year equals approximately six trillion miles). Another discovery, nearer home, concerned the Cepheid variables-a class of stars, mostly yellow supergiants, which fluctuate regularly in brightness. The Harvardmen noticed that in the Small...
...many ways I'm glad to be back in America," commented Quentin Roosevelt '41 last night after telling some of the hair raising experiences he had this summer while travelling in far-off China...