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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Happiest of the lot was a handsome Viennese youth. Two years ago he began to correspond with then 14-year-old Lillian Wolfram, member of "The Pen Pals," a Glenside, Pa., high-school club which encourages boys & girls of different countries to write to each other. When Lillian's distant Pen Pal found himself getting into trouble with the Nazis, Father Wolfram undertook to get him out of the Reich and last week he arrived, a robust 18 to Lillian's sweet 16. "I am a Jew and just call me Harry," he smilingly told ship-newscameramen...
Highly pleased with Rube's beginning, the Sun saw even in his screwy imagination a kind of stability. Said Business Manager Edwin Samson Friendly: "Rube's a very substantial citizen . . . not like a lot of these other guys that can be funny one day and off the next...
Several instances of unusual generosity came to the attention of the Committee. In Lowell House a tutor who felt particularly bad about the lot of the German refugees contributed $100. In another house, a student revealed that his mother had read about the drive in a Philadelphia newspaper and had sent a check...
...views, "Athleticism," he says, "attracts boys and girls to college who do not want and cannot use a college education." And although there are rather few institutions which make a practice of going out and hiring a topnotch feminine field hockey aggregation, there is, nevertheless, a lot of truth in this new attack on athletic over-emphasis. Let us use two colleges as examples, both of them institutions which are not mentioned by Mr. Hutchins...
Since 1925, 70-year-old William Allen White has done a lot of studying about Coolidge, "one of the most curious human problems that as a reporter I have ever confronted." Coolidge, he concluded, was "a perfect throwback to the more primitive days of the Republic . . . ? waxwork figure of a Puritan boy, out of the social museum that is rural Vermont." and remained throughout his career a 100-year time lag personified. Most of the evidence-Coolidge's penny-pinching, picklish personality, Yankee cunning, sentimentality, provincialism-fits Author White's thesis. Placed against the teeming, speculative post...