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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joint meet of the Buckram Beagles and the Redington Foot Beagles owned by John K. Cowperthwaite of Far Hills, N. J. Prey of the week-end was not the mere jackrabbit or the lowly cottontail, but the rare European hare (giant of the rabbit family),† which has been known to run twelve miles in one direction before turning to circle home. In the three years that the two packs have hunted this region, bound they like bandersnatches, not one of these exasperating hares had been caught. On the first day of last week's meet, however, there...
Tennessee's prowess, for the most part, is attributed to modest, Texas-born Major Robert Reese Neyland (pronounced knee-land), football coach since 1926. Famed 25 years ago as one of the greatest all-round athletes ever turned out at West Point, The Major (as he is known to his players) is at long last being recognized as one of the great football coaches of the U. S. In twelve years (one year he was unable to coach because of Army duty in the Canal Zone)* he has turned out six undefeated teams, and his record of 102 victories...
...Cyril Gerard Holland, vicar of Ewell, Surrey, deplored such chauvinist talk. Said he: "Let us at least leave God as a neutral." In John Bull, Rev. William McCormick, popularly known as "Pat" McCormick, of St. Martins-in-the-Fields, hazarded that "God must hate it all ... the evil behind this use of force, the misery and suffering. . . . His is the hardest part. He's in the midst of all the suffering because . . . Germans and Allies alike . . . we're all his children...
Francis Iles, who as Anthony Berkeley writes detective fiction, is also known to U. S. readers as the author of two much-admired psychological murder stories, Before the Fact and Malice Aforethought...
...Morrow ($4). Dr. Mead's three books, Coming of Age in Samoa, Growing Up in New Guinea, and Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies, are here reprinted in one volume, with a new preface. These gently acute, strongly persuasive studies of the power of custom are well known to every anthropologist and to many thoughtful laymen. Their usefulness, particularly to those who are most directly responsible in the training of children, is by no means yet exhausted...