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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Jan. 10, reference is made to the "180-ft. bottom" of the Yangtze. I think you will find that it is not so deep as this anywhere within 100 or so miles of Nanking...
...Human Hearts, In Old Chicago, The Buccaneer, The Adventures of Marco Polo, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Gold Is Where You Find It, Hollywood Hotel, The Goldwyn Follies, Mad About Music...
...famed Munchausenish travel tale, comes at length to a cockleshell's finale. With about as much relish for his task as a small boy's for his homework, lank, ingenuous Actor Gary Cooper dons Marco's 13th-Century raiment, crosses desert, sea & mountain only to find, in a remarkable conception of old Peking, George Barbier dressed up as Kublai Khan. Historically, Kublai Khan was China's strong man, who conquered all of China & ruled more subjects than he could count. Producer Goldwyn's Cathay is pretty thoroughly under the well-manicured thumb of Basil Rathbone...
Although Harvard is far from perfect, University officials will find few constructive ideas in former Professor Lake's recent tirade on American education. Indeed, the querulous tone of his criticism seems more indicative of personal resentment of Harvard's belated censure of his conduct than of any real interest in the educational process. Possibly, too, Mr. Lake was impressing Brown University with his qualifications for the chair of Comparative Literature...
...interesting--nor more disheartening. Endless questions, questions he knows he can never answer, pose themselves in the Vagabond's mind. What is the future of the new balance of power for which Chamberlain is striving in Europe? After three hundred years of failure, can England, France, Germany, and Italy find a magic formula to keep the peace? Or will their efforts end like all the rest--in the ruin of another catastrophic...