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Crowed the Communist Daily Worker: "The Communist Party has become a strong, influential factor in the maritime industry. . . . More difficult struggles loom...
...desert tombs, Bailey rediscovered lost weaving techniques (spinning had once been so ' fine-they sometimes used mouse's hair-that the shrouds ran thread counts of 250 to the inch). On burro trips in the 12,000-ft. sierra, Bailey uncovered the finesse of the ancient backstrap loom. In Andean fields, he rubbed wild-flower petals into his palm, watched the sweat precipitate streaks of true dye colors; he tested and proved 420 hues. In the Amazon highlands he found long-forgotten "workable" hardwoods...
Following the Princeton game, the Crimson is slated to face Holy Cross, (which lost to the Chasemen. 10 to 5, last month), Yale, the Boston Athletic Association, Dartmouth, Brown, and West Point. Dartmouth and Yale loom as the strongest of the opposition; both have defeated West Point and each other, and both have had formal hockey all through...
...traits early set him apart from fellow Broadway columnists. He liked to quote people accurately, even if they were talking in their cups. And he did not set himself up as an international answer man. The female form does not loom as large in Wilson's column as it once did. Now he covers events like Bernarr Macfadden's stand-on-your-head religion, Cosmotari-anism. Reported Wilson: "They got mat burns at last Sunday's sermon. . . ." He interviewed Polish Tenor Jan Kiepura after the critics panned his new show, and reported it, in pure Kiepurese...
...matters not that finals loom...