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John C. Carter '41 uncovered one large print, which after debate was attributed to the great race of extinct reptiles. Proudly tucking the case of it under his arm, he brought it back to present to his home-town library...
...Jersey's ex-Governor Harold G. Hoffman this week began a syndicated daily column in several New Jersey newspapers. Wrote Columnist Hoffman: "This column . . . represents the outcropping of frustrated desire. When a youngster I wrote a column of fishing news for my home-town weekly. . . ." The ex-Governor's syndicators, hoping to spike rumors that Mr. Hoffman might use the column in fishing for 1940 reelection, promised that it "never will be used to foster any personal ambitions...
...Russia, the Dictator felt strong enough to permit the bringing to light in court last week of two attempts to assassinate him years ago. Both were made by natives of Georgia, the part of Russia in which the Dictator was born. The first of these attempts to put Home-Town Boy Stalin out of the way was in 1933, the second in 1935 - according to the October 29 issue of the Tiflis newspaper, Zarya Vostoka ("The Dawn of the East"), which last week reached Moscow. Both these at tempts on the life of Our Sun, the Moscow press continued...
Pittsburgh is famed more for steel than for music. When the Pittsburgh Symphony gave its first concert eleven years ago, it was arrested for breaking the Sabbath. Four years later a home-town boy named Antonio Modarelli began to conduct. Modarelli had studied extensively in Germany, composed there two operas, Hanns Frei and Sakuntala. His Ocean Flight, a ballet-pantomime about Lindbergh helped make him the only American in the Society of German Composers...
Possibility of the Newspaper Guild's making a special effort to unionize President Stahlman's own paper, as a matter of Guild prestige, paled beside a more immediate home-town newspaper situation...