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Dates: during 1930-1939
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English 35--(Formerly Comp. Lit. 35) Munn taking it over, should be good. On the Bible...
There was talk of setting up pup tents on the turf, but no action. Several students made tents of their raincoats and tried to entice less fortunate Radcliffe girls to share their shelter. The girls defiantly lit cigarettes to show that they, at least, knew how to handle rain...
Have you ever noticed that the World Almanac has long used on its cover a map which shows Great Britain (but not Ireland) firmly attached to the European continent? I baited them about this once in the Saturday Review of Lit., but perhaps if mentioned in a journal of slightly larger circulation they might correct it. Who knows? They might at the same time put in five Great Lakes (instead of four) and include Long Island. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY...
...Coyoacán suburb of Mexico's capital. The house, placed at Trotsky's disposal by the wife of Mexico's Trotskyist painter, Diego Rivera, is elaborately wired to sound warnings of intruders. At night it stands out like a three-alarm fire in dim-lit, sleepy Coyoacán as floodlights blaze on the pastel blue walls. Trotsky's three secretaries carry pistols, practice target shooting in their spare moments. The Great Exile himself parks a big revolver on his desk as a paper weight whenever he sits down to write. Small, white-haired...
Stocky, hard-driving Dr. Maier is a Fundamentalist, gets his fan mail from Bible readers. Last week, in a broadcast sermon at a Lutheran Rally in Manhattan, he lit into an organization which many of his fellow Fundamentalists view with alarm-the Federal Council of Churches. Denouncing it as "one of the major menaces to conservative and Biblical Christianity in this country," Lutheran Maier declared that the Federal Council maintains a radio monopoly in the U. S., which he proposes to take up with the Federal Communications Commission. As documentation. Dr. Maier quoted a statement made by the Council...