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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lettermen Fred Heckel and Bill Humes cleared up some of Wes Fesler's worries, but he had to experiment extensively to find another guard. When a starting five was finally placed together, it was woefully weak in experience, but worse than that it turned out to be one of the shortest quintets to wear the Crimson in many a year. The Sophomores' one and only seasoned contribution was Homer Peabody, hard-working and aggressive center, who quickly ousted Bill Humes from his first-string pivot post...
...attacked by that disease so common among political commentators and critics of the American scene, the disease of terminology. His eyes, searching for a quiet and secure resting place, have seized upon communism, pacifism, fascism and turned them into the little pink elephants which many of his indulgent readers find on their walls. In truth he has become embittered because he has been unable to settle into a political philosophy which would snugly fit the changing world. it irks him that he cannot objectify what suits him personally, that he can find nothing static, nothing permanent, nothing resembling the unity...
...have looted McKesson & Robbins of several millions, is listed in Who's Who, with an entirely fictitious record including two college degrees. Do the editors of Who's Who make no check on the veracity of the facts in their volume ? Some energetic young reporter may find that their venerable volume has a lot of skeletons between its covers...
Among Nazi officials the bright-eyed Propaganda Minister is called "Little Doctor." Year ago, in a Berlin film, a seductive Czech actress was asked how to get ahead in the world. Her reply was: "Go find a good doctor." The audience, which guessed what doctor was meant, roared with laughter. The Little Doctor hurriedly withdrew the film. An added quirk to the situation was the fact that the Czech leading lady, Lida Baarova, was a particularly admired protegee of Dr. Goebbels. Last week, as Dr. Goebbels lay sick abed with what was officially reported as intestinal influenza, Lida Baarova...
...first of a series of broadcasts sponsored by the University over radio station W1XAL and dealing with the various aspects of modern college life, Assistant Dean E. Francis Bowditch '35 said in his speech last Tuesday night, "The colleges must study our Twentieth Century civilization and find ways of teaching mankind how to live in the comparatively new world he has created...