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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With six copies of the petition still circulating and untabulated, over one hundred and fifty students are known to have endorsed the demand for a "formal declaration of policy" of the University...
Three years ago Dorothy Thompson had won some fame as a foreign correspondent, most of it confined to her professional colleagues. Her book on Hitler was best known for its flat statement that he would never come to power ("Oh, Adolf! Adolf! You will be out of luck"), and her book on Russia was best known as the inspiration for Sinclair Lewis's renowned brawl with Theodore Dreiser, whom he accused of plagiarizing it. She had written a few articles for The Saturday Evening Post and was considered an intelligent journalist, but she was a reporter and no pundit...
...cook to get material for a book on belowstairs life. President Cass Canfield of Harper & Bros, announced he had bought the book (One Pair of Hands), gaffed: "She has an easy pen and the same interest in the lower half of the people that Dickens was so well known...
...Benton, Ky., James R. Lemon and some of his family began an annual songfest which became known as "Benton's Big Singing," attracted people from miles around by their performance of hymns and revival songs from Southern Harmony. Sample old favorite...
...story, as told by a simple Japanese infantryman in letters to his family, has a naive charm until readers recall that "Ashihei Hino" is really Katsunori Tamai, known to a highbrow handful of Japanese readers for his The Warship on the Mountain, The Fish with Poison, for which in the past two years he has won Japan's highest Akutagawa Prize for literature. Translater is pacifist Birth-Controller Baroness Shidzué Ishimoto, who translated the book out of "deep devotion to my country...