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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amos Murphy, gigantic Sophomore, former Connecticut Interscholastic Champion, came through to prove his Freshman record last year was no fluke. Another Sophomore from whom great things are expected is Lyn Brua...
...Spain on condition of good behavior. The British, sentimental about kings and queens, were unofficially advancing the cause of a restoration of the Spanish monarchy. They were said to favor putting Juan, Alfonso XIII's second surviving son, on the throne because: 1) he had a British mother (former Queen Victoria); 2) he was educated in the British Navy...
...Doan's former quarters at Hot Springs, famed Batsman Rogers Hornsby has opened an establishment called the Rogers Hornsby Baseball College Classrooms. Associated with Hornsby College is a school for umpires, now in its fifth year, operated by National League Umpire George Barr. Barr pupils will get their field work umpiring the games of the Hornsby Collegemen this year, just as they previously did at Doan intramural games. Professor Barr charges $60 for a six-week course. Enrolled this year are 60 students, aged 21 to 40. He has made umpires out of doctors, lawyers, barbers, boilermakers, has placed...
Inside Red China, by the good-looking wife of Edgar Snow (Red Star Over China), describes four months spent in Yenan, former headquarters of the Chinese Soviet Republic (now the "Frontier Districts of Shensi, Kansu and Ningsia") and the Red Army (now the Eighth Route Army). Written a year after her husband brought out his sensational account of the Chinese Soviets, her book duplicates much of the material in his, but is more personalized, has more to say about the women leaders who survived the epochal 6,000-mile "Long March" (when the Communists retreated in 1934 from South China...
Edgar Ansel Mowrer is former head of the Foreign Press Association in Berlin, winner of a 1933 Pulitzer Prize for his despatches on the rise of Hitler, and author of Germany Puts the Clock Back-the book that got him kicked out of Germany. Last year he spent several months in Central and North China, interviewed foreigners, Chinese, the "Amazing Soong Family," watched a Japanese bombing massacre with U. S.-made planes, saw the guerrillas in action behind the Japanese lines...