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...excitement and roughness of U. S. college football games as barbaric, the initiations of U. S. college fraternities as infantile. Last week, through the enterprise of press photographers, the U. S. was given an intimate contemporary view of a European college activity seldom viewed by outsiders-the Schläger mensur or "sport duel," as still practiced secretly with sharp sabres at the foremost universities of Germany...
...loveliest creations of the ancient dynasties. For a few dollars, the Berlin museum supplied plaster reproductions (colored) to all who asked. Innumerable Egyptians became enraged, challenged Germany's right to possession, hotly attacked Archaeologist Borchardt. The debate continued until last week, when Egyptian ire was cooled by Ger many's decision to return Queen Nefertiti to her native land, to accept several other rarities in exchange. Nefertiti was the wife of the pharaoh Ikhnaton, whom she espoused in the 14th Century B. C. She bore him no sons: the name of their son-in-law, Tutankhamun, an effete...
Divorced. Sara Teasdale Filsinger, poetess (Helen of Troy and Other Poems, The Answering Voice?One Hundred Love Lyrics by Women?); from Ernst B. Filsin-ger of St. Louis, foreign trade expert (Lawrence & Co.); at Reno, Nev. Grounds: "From early morning until late at night he lived with his business...
...official note handed to the Ger man Ambassador at Moscow for transmission to the Chinese Government via the German Ambassador at Nanking the Soviet Government declared in part: ". . . While doing their utmost to prevent the crossing of the border by Soviet troops, the Soviet Government holds that the Chinese author ities must disarm the White guard detach ments and prevent all possible raids on Soviet territory by Chinese forces. Other wise the guilt of further complications caused by new raids will be entirely on the Nanking Government...
Leather. Many U. S. makers of shoes, purses, gloves, buy their high grade goat and kid skins from Martin Zimmer Lederwerke, A. G., of Frankfort-am-Main, Ger many, and their reptile skins from Alpina Ltd. of Paris and Berne. The two tanning firms are now consolidated...