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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Harwa journeyed to Manhattan by plane and his publicity-wise handlers saw to it that he got into a good deal of trouble. He was first evicted from a hotel, then from a performance of the mad musicomedy Hellzapoppin, and finally, while being taken to a General Electric X-Ray Corp. office, got caught in a revolving door...
Died. William Thomas Lopp, 74, longtime Alaska's Reindeer Superintendent and Chief of the Alaskan Division of the U. S. Bureau of Education; of cerebral thrombosis and meningitis; in Seattle. To the Eskimos Lopp was "Tom Gorrah" (Tom, the Good Man). Largely responsible for the importation of reindeer into Alaska (1892), he fought all his life for laws that would return the reindeer from commercial interests to the natives...
...Oregon Trail. As readers follow the footprints of their forbears over the plains they get a warm picture of them-a great people for carving their names on rocks and monuments, as if determined to leave some mark on the face of their enormous country; violent but good-natured, naive but shrewd, poetic without knowing it, unintimidated by distance and too engrossed in their struggles with nature to bear grudges for long. And at the end of the 2,000-mile road they can understand William Clark's elation when he wrote, at the mouth of the Columbia: "Ocian...
...daughters of Lin Yutang (The Importance of Living), that hard-working and engaging Chinese exponent of the leisurely life. Says doll-like Meimei, who is spoiled and collects stamps: "Father told Adet and Anor to write some diary. Soon they began to write and it became very good, so Father told them that maybe it can be published." A Chinese equivalent of the Abbe children's travel diaries, Our Family is more charming, thanks to the contributions of tomboy Anor. Anor's family and travel observations, her Rats and Mice at Home, and the tales her Chinese nurse...
...children, they are punctual, straightforward, "good at memerizing, but talk about love affairs too early," ask silly questions about China, and "the way they play scares...