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...fact that Poliakoff served the Times twelve of his 20 journalistic years, and since deserting it last year (preferring to work for a paper "of news, not views") has also scooped the whiskered Times on: 1) Mussolini's fall "peace gesture," 2) Hitler's intention to forgo colonies for a free hand in middle Europe, 3) the February British Cabinet crisis...
...realize, with special clarity, how much in error are those theorists who believe that theory comes inductively from experience. Even the Great Newton could not free himself from this error ("Hypotheses non forgo...
...game as it is conducted by the undergraduates of Oxford and Cambridge. This would be admirable, but is there any probability that it will be done in any reasonable time? Would, for example, great football institutions like Harvard and Notre Dame, or Chicago and the University of Southern California, forgo games in which some hundreds of thousands of dollars are realized at a single gathering? Perhaps they will in time, but the time may be in the long future. If one of good old colleges had the courage to do this, it would reap a reward beyond its wildest expectations...
There is also an Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, for Negroes. Improved Elkdom was embroiled last week in legal proceedings over where it would hold its 28th annual Grand Lodge sessions next year, white Elks in Manhattan having prevailed upon black Elks to forgo meeting there as planned...
...regular fifteen minute periods the twenty dances will be played off. Super will be served in the intermission between the tenth and eleventh dances. The music will be furnished by Leo Reisman's Brunswick Orchestra and the Jefferson-Johnson Orchestra, both of Boston. Any couples arriving late must forgo the card dances they miss, and cutting-in will not be allowed before the first encore...