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...year donated £1,000 and other sponsors swelled the fund to £70,000. Last week in Montreal landed the first batch of Canadian Fairbridgians, 27 boys, 14 girls, averaging ten years of age. Most of them came from around Newcastle. Solicitous Canadians found them a spruce and keen-eyed but impish lot who raced up & down the deck of their steamer, yelling, pulling one another's hair, tormenting their three chaperones. At the Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School at Pemberlea, Vancouver Island, the 41 obstreperous youngsters and the 300 who are to follow them will be gently...
...women of Catfish Row lull their babies, keen over their dead. The men have their fishing, their crap games Saturday nights. Both cringe before the white folks' laws, the ill-omened buzzards, the lashing hurricane which provides the play's great climax. There are such numbers as A Woman is a Sometime Thing, Bess, You is My Woman Now, A Redheaded Woman Makes a Choo-Choo-Jump its Tracks, It Ain't Necessarily...
...Still as keen and canny as he was in 1916, Sir Samuel Hoare now enjoys triple prestige. He made a great Air Minister (1922-24 & 1924-29), flying with Lady Hoare to inaugurate personally such new Empire air routes as the 5,566-mile span from London to New Delhi. More recently he has been the most prominent Secretary of State for India of this century, driving relentlessly through the House of Commons the longest bill it ever passed, and thus giving 350,000,000 Indians a new Constitution (TIME, June 17). The reward was Sir Samuel's appointment...
...Good Will became a little clearer. But the engrossing questions of its permanent literary value and of its probable influence and significance were as open to controversy as before. Less crowded with incidents than preceding volumes, The World from Below deals primarily with the dilemma of Jean Jerphanion, keen, ambitious, radical student whose desire to reform the world and prevent war is thwarted by his inability to find a political group or a party in whose sincerity and effectiveness he can believe. He moves first toward the Socialists, but is repelled by their callow optimism, learns of the existence...
...working behind the lines. Il Duce's two flying sons, Victor and Bruno, were at the airport here at dawn today when the correspondent, flying from Khartum, in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, landed. Mussolini's kinsmen were screwing fuses into bombs, with comrades of lesser station but no less keen to begin the big show...