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...MARA - Stoyan Christowe - Crowell ($2). Story of a youthful Macedonian terrorist in the gory fight against Turkish oppression before 1912; a first novel, done with folktale simplicity, by the author of Heroes and Assassins...
Among distinguished founders of the Spanish Republic (TIME, April 20, 1931, et seq.) was Dr. Gregorio Marañon y Posadillo, famed biologist who was jailed under the Primo de Rivera dictatorship, was close in the running to be elected the Republic's first President. Said he last week: "The tyranny of General Primo de Rivera was just and tolerant compared to the oppressions of the present Madrid-Valencia regime. Every day they are killing men and women simply because they are suspected of having independent opinions. All the intelligentsia of Spain, with the exception...
...Hurvich 4G., Norman B. Keevil 3G., John R. Lacher 3G., Edward W. Moore, instructor in Sanitary Chemistry, Stanley J. G. Nowak, instructor in Surgery, James A. Noble 1G., James G. O'mara 3G., Howard A. Potter 4G., Kenneth B. Raper 2G., Wendell A. Ray 4G., True W. Robinson 7GG., William E. Schevill, assistant curator in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernest R. Sears 4G., Wesley W. Spink, assistant in Medicine, Robert E. Stauffer...
Sing Sing's football team, whose star back, Alabama Pitts, may get a job with the Giants next autumn, is also a Mara sideline. At the end of the 1932 season, Mara presented Warden Lawes with a set of old Giant uniforms, suggested starting a prison team. The Sing Sing Black Sheep, coached by Giant players, have made $10,000 a year for the prison...
Tall, husky, vigorous, Promoter Mara is the picture of a onetime college athlete. He left school at 14, never played baseball, dislikes card games. He belongs to the New York Athletic Club but has never seen its gymnasium. For recreation he goes to the cinema or astonishes his friends by solving intricate arithmetical problems without pencil & paper...