Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Official" Program of Kidnapper Chang was as follows (full text): "The Central [Nanking] Government [of China] has not been sincere in carrying out resistance against Japan. This has been shown by lengthy negotiations and the suppression of patriotic movements. So we must gather our forces, overthrow the Central Government and expedite the national salvation...
...UNDER FORTY-Willa Gather- Knopf ($2). Brief collection of six quiet Prose pieces ranging from an essay on Thomas Mann to a memoir of Sarah Orne Jewett, including a few personal recollections by the most reticent of contemporary novelists. The title means that the book "will not interest persons under 40 years of age." VILLAINS AND VIGILANTES-Stanton...
...John Santens, 60, Ward's sole surviving taxidermist, is officially retired but keeps on working. So many schools and museums now teach taxidermy that Ward's demand for stuffed animals has fallen almost to zero, and the antlers of moose, deer and caribou cluttering the biology department gather much dust, few orders...
Dick Harlow's Varsity football squad meets for the last time this year at 1.30 o'clock this afternoon in Dillon Field House, when they gather to elect the captain of the 1937 eleven, and incidentally have the team picture taken or the Class Album...
...Pearl Syden-stricker Buck published a sympathetic portrait of her mother called The Exile (TIME, Jan. 13). In that affectionate volume, Carrie Sydenstricker, sensible missionary and patient mother, far overshadowed her husband Andrew. He emerged as a zealous, absent-minded man who was constantly pushing deeper into China to gather converts of doubtful loyalty and understanding. Good, unquestioning, self-righteous, he caused Carrie more suffering than he knew. This week in another purely biographical volume that is the December choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Pearl Buck gets around to giving her father his innings. If The Exile...