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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Extension of Southern hospitality was the chief occupation of the President's week. Chief beneficiary was Under Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell whom the President, driving his own car, met at the railroad station, took home for luncheon, took for a swim, conferred with at length. A jolly time they had together, and on the second day of the Tugwell visit the President drove him and Mrs. Roosevelt to see an erosion control project on his 1,700-acre farm at nearby Pine Mountain...
...Yale bandleader dropped his baton. The Harvard bass drum tipped over at a crucial moment. Incongruous in the smart Bowl crowd were two members of a traveling circus, a giant and a midget in a tall silk hat. In the interval after the third period, a spectator ran the length of the field, threw his hat over the Harvard goal posts, snickered at the crowd...
...unable last week to confirm the report of the Pope's ban. Observers recalled that last year a papal film called The Shepherd of the Seven Hills was widely and commercially exhibited (TIME, Aug. 21, 1933). Currently the Pope appears and speaks in Man of Courage, a full-length commercial picture dedicated to the glory of Fascism and Mussolini...
Ignoring Medicine's reasons, Professor Bancroft inveighed: "In the last 20 years, the probable length of human life has been materially increased, thanks to medical science, but the change is largely due to a decrease in deaths among infants and children. The average improvement for a man of 45 through medical advances is about two months...
...annual Lowell's Birthday Dinner, Thursday, December 13, members of Lowell House will produce "Gamma Gurton's Needle," the earliest full length English comedy, with the aid of whatever properties can be dug out of old New England barns and designed by willing girl-friends. Tryouts for parts will be held in the Tower room this afternoon at 3.15, under the management of Douglas W. Overton '36 and Alan S. Deruer...