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John L. Barr Jr. '39 achieved golfdom's greatest thrill yesterday afternoon when he scored a hole-in-one on the 210-yard 12th hole at the Belmont Country Club. He used a number four wood in accomplishing the feat...
Justice Reed remarked on the advantageous setting of this student conference, carried forward by the daily publications of three of the nation's leading universities. These colleges make possible what the Justice termed "a broad, general knowledge of economic and political developments, which enables one to gain the greatest benefit from this mingling of national figures and college undergraduates...
...Reading List on American History which was so widely acclaimed was unquestionably a contribution of great and fundamental importance. But the present series of lectures sponsored by the Committee, making available the wisdom of noted and cloistered speakers to students and the general public can only be of the greatest practical value and significance to the American History Plan and to those whom it is intended to benefit...
...brightest in Britain. His career as an entertainer started in his teens, when in one night he played a gravedigger, the ghost and a strolling player in Hamlet, did a blackface curtain piece and closed the evening with a clog dance, all for four shillings, eleven pence. But his greatest acclaim has been from the music halls where his variety turns have topped bills all over the English-speaking world. Already a notable success in cinema, he will later this year make Rob Roy for Gaumont British...
...concerts at eleven, and at 16 taught it as a professor at the Cologne Conservatory. Ousted by Nazis from his position as teacher in Berlin's Hochschule für Musik in 1933, he embarked on two world tours, was nailed on four continents as one of the greatest living virtuosos. While traveling, Cellist Feuermann never lets his $30,000 Stradivarius cello out of his sight, always buys an extra berth for it when forced to spend the night on the train...