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...bounded by the farm's horizon: he was determined to better not only himself but the world. At 19 he left home to find himself and make his fortune, went as a pedlar of Yankee notions into the South. The hospitable Southerners took him in, taught him manners, lent him books. Commercially, his trips were a signal failure: when he stopped peddling to take up schoolteaching he owed his hard-pressed father $600. But he had learned more than any college could have taught...
DEATH WITHOUT BATTLE - Ludwig Renn - Dodd, Mead ($2). Cinematic story, lent a Grimm's fairy-tale touch by primer characterizations and writing, of Communists and disillusioned Storm Troopers in Hitler Germany; by the author of War and After...
Four years ago a passer-by along the shores of the New Jersey's Raritan River would have seen two crews racing down the Herley course against each other. One boat was a second hand gig lent by Lawrenceville Preparatory School for the occasion, and the other a similar purchased boat from Princeton. In the boats were the first and second crews of Rutgers University...
...from its parent company, Hearst Consolidated Publications. A footnote explains that most of that item once represented money due from another Hearst company. When Hearst Consolidated was formed in 1930, it assumed the debt in part payment for stock in Hearst Publications. Thus, in effect, the subsidiary lent the parent company the money with which the parent company bought the subsidiary's stock. Hearst Publications lists its goodwill (circulation, press franchises, reference libraries, etc.) at $38,000,000, some $30,000,000 of which represents write-ups. Out of Hearst Publications' $89,000,000 total assets...
...holy and mundane subjects, in innumerable informal messages and in 28 encyclicals or circular letters. During his grave illness of the past four months, however, His Holiness was generally thought to have said his last say. But the doughty Pontiff heartened his flock by rallying toward the beginning of Lent, and last week Pius XI released his 29th encyclical, a 13,000-word denunciation of Communism, suddenly and startlingly followed this on Palm Sunday with No. 30, addressed to the faithful of Germany and forecasting a rupture between the Holy See and the Third Reich...